Dave Gutteridge wrote:
> 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?
You can add different yum/apt/rpm repositories...
http://dag.wieers.com/home-made/apt/
There are others, but be warned, there might be some incompatibilities.
http://dag.wieers.com/home-made/apt/FAQ.php#D2
>
> 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
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