Centos Mailing List,
Hello. I have just recently installed CentOS on my home computer,
and just joined this mailing list. I have a lot of questions so I will
have quite a few postings in the next few days.
I was using Fedora Core 4 for a few weeks, but it was unstable and
had trouble reading some of my DVD drives and other issues. So, I
decided to switch to another distribution. I saw on one site that the
three distros being nominated for best distribution by user's vote were
Ubuntu, CentOS, and Fedora Core. I tried Ubuntu, but the installer kept
failing. So I went to CentOS.
Anyway, long story short, CentOS looks and feels just like Fedora
(which I like), and it reads all my DVD drives normally, so I think I
could be happy with it.
But...
When I tried to install Xine, using yum, it said it could not find
it. And then I went looking for an RPM for Xine, and they're all for Red
Hat or Fedora. I tried installing an RPM for Fedora anyway, reasoning
that maybe they were the same in more than just looks, but no dice.
As I looked around the net, it seems that applications all seem to
have specific builds for Red Hat, Fedora, a couple of Debian builds...
but no CentOS. Going by the amount of available information and support,
Fedora is the primary Linux distribution, and CentOS hardly even exists.
Can't I have it all? Stability, the ability to read my DVD drives,
*and* a variety of applications?
Is there any kind of resource for instructions on installing CentOS
like there is this one for Fedora:
http://stanton-finley.net/fedora_core_4_installation_notes.html
Dave
