On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 9:06 AM, Ljubomir Ljubojevic <centos@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On top of what you said, I would add that majority of users are not real
> hard core admins, just people with an itch to scratch. So in that case
> out-of-the-box working system for regular Joe is what they need, a car
> that you can start and drive, not an assembly kit that need weeks of
> learning and putting together before driving it.
>
> SME like ClearOS if what they need, and it is good way to start learning
> about CentOS, since all base packages are just that. I also started with
> ClarckConnect (ClearOS) in 2005, and I started to learn how things work
> once I had my web and mail server running on them.
I always thought that the CentOS project did itself a disservice by
not encouraging and staying associated with the more usable respins.
Another good one that worked up through CentOS5 was K12LTSP which was
a fairly stock CentOS install that would come up PXE-booting thin
clients - and it added a working java (back when that wasn't easy),
flash, and a set of education-related programs. I hope the future SIG
concept brings more of that kind of appliance-like setup
pre-configured to do certain jobs without additional fiddling.
--
Les Mikesell
lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx
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