On Fri, 17 Sep 2010, Les Mikesell wrote: > I'd consider the most valuable things to know about would be the > nature of an assortment of 3rd party yum repositories (i.e. EPEL > makes an effort not to overwrite core packages but probably won't > have everything you want), how to find and install their *-release > packages, how to use yum to search and install things from them, and > that most of them should left disabled in the yum configuration so > they don't affect things unless you explicitly enable them on the > command line for a search or specific package you want. i've already added a section on EPEL, just so i can install things like git. and i know there's an entire page at centos.org on extra repos. any there that you *particularly* recommend? i'll revisit that page later today but i'm thinking that, for the sake of this first-level admin course, EPEL might be sufficient for now. > Oh - and how to install and use freenx/NX for remote access. hmmmm ... good idea. or i might just add in VNC and carry over the freenx to an additional course dealing with networking/remote admin/etc. thanks. rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA Top-notch, inexpensive online Linux/OSS/kernel courses http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday LinkedIn: http://ca.linkedin.com/in/rpjday ======================================================================== _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos