m.roth@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Les Mikesell wrote:
>> On 5/26/2011 4:21 PM, m.roth@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
>>>> 1) see if your boss has a problem with you having to remember to
>>>> update thunderbird from the i386 updates directory.
>>>> 2) see if you could (gently) convince the centos guys to put it
>>>> also in one of the centosplus or extras x86_64 portions of the repo. [I
>>> <snip>
>>> Would be nice. Trouble is, we've got what, 60? 70? people in the
>>> division who have Linux workstations, and then rolling it all out, and
>>> no one wants to deal with 32-bit apps on 64 bit systems (we won't mention
>>> npviewer<segv><segv<segv>)....
>>>
>>> Lightening and lightening-exchange looked really good....
>> If you are using Centos as a desktop, you'll probably want to upgrade to
>> 6.0 at the first opportunity which should get you up to T-bird 3.1.x
>> with a matching thunderbird-ligntening in EPEL. Still need the exchange
>> connector, though.
>
> We'll go up to 6, or, more likely, 6.1, but we've just got a couple of
> test machines running RHEL 6 and 6.1; upgrading to that will be a Big Deal
> - there's some apps that are, let us be polite, seem to be pretty damn
> fragile.... And most of our researchers and affiliates (or whatever the
> right name for the developers is) have CentOS workstations, though
> development's done on the servers.
>
> And I'm going to have to worry about NVidia cards, like mine, that need
> the -173 proprietary driver....
> <snip>
> mark
ElRepo kernel modules do not cut it?
Ljubomir
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