Forgive me for querrying the Fedora list for this, but I really don't want to subscribe to a Yet Another Mailing List just to have this one single basic question answered. It is quite unlikely that I will be having any more questions about CentOS in the future, so... Ok, to the problem --- I have one (soon to be two) CentOS 5.2 machine(s), and I seem to miss some packages that I am used to in Fedora: 1) kmod-nvidia and kmod-fglrx --- searching through the web, all I see about CentOS is installing/compiling drivers straight from nVidia and ATI. Are there maintained yumable packages that get autoupdated along with CentOS kernel like the ones for Fedora? 2) BackupPC --- so far it was running quite well for me on Fedora, but it does not seem to exist for CentOS, which comes with some other (equivalent) tools. Am I destined to use those, or am I missing some repository where backuppc can be found? Or should I compile it myself? 3) Cairo-dock --- ok, this is not essential, but I like it :-). However, yum says no matches found. Just to note, so far I have enabled the default base, extras, updates repositories from CentOS, and in addition the Dag repository for RHEL5 and adobe repository for flash. <rant> ATrpms has way too obsolete installation instructions (some others too --- Dries comes to mind) to be seriously considered as a reliable repository. For example, Livna has a .rpm file for each Fedora distro that I just have to install and it is ready to go. On ATrpms website I was told to manually edit the .repo files according to the template given for Fedora 7 (!!!), changing some parameters to suit my own distro (???)... Wtf? Did I miss the right instructions page? This is just user-unfriendly, to say the least. But I may even try it out if someone just gives me the exact contents of the appropriate .repo file that works with CentOS 5.2, and if ATrpms has all these packages that I need, updated more often than their website... </rant> This machine is meant to be unattended (physically, not remotely) for a period of 3 years, so I guessed that CentOS is the distro that would Just Work in such conditions, and at the same time it is similar enough to Fedora that I shall be comfortable admining it remotely as neccessary. The other machine is to be used as a desktop machine by a serve-on-a-plate kind of user who knows nothing beyond kde menus (hence the question about automatic graphics drivers), also admined by me remotely. I will be thankful for any suggestions about the above. I do not insist on yum and will content to build from source, if I can be guaranteed that such setup will not break after 3 years of possible (regular) kernel updates. Excuse me again for not going to CentOS list for this, it seems obvious that a lot of people here use CentOS as well, so... ;-) Best, :-) Marko -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
