On Thursday 24 September 2009 10:31:55 Sorin Srbu wrote: > >-----Original Message----- > >From: centos-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:centos-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On > > Behalf Of Anne Wilson > >Sent: Thursday, September 24, 2009 11:11 AM > >To: CentOS mailing list > >Subject: CentOS for non-tech user > > > >I'm thinking of giving CentOS to a non-tech user for her new desktop. He > >needs are small. She has been used to Mozilla for both mail and browsing, > > so equivalents there are not a problem. She needs grip and lame, for her > > mp3s - again no problem. In fact the only problem I can see is that > > gwenview doesn't > >appear to have the kipi-plugins. I can see libkipi listed, but no > > plugins, and a pbone search didn't find it for me. Perhaps it's > > available from a repo that I don't have? This is the tool of choice for > > me, for photo-printing. > > > >I think I've covered the areas that she's interested in. Can anyone point > >out > >any other things I should consider? > > OpenOffice? > Yes, of course. Should have thought of that :-) However, that's no problem. > The RPMforge and Epel repos are always good bets, at least they have been > for me. Just make sure you use the yum-priorities plugin. You break it, > you buy it - kind of. ;-) > Yea, I know, "I get to keep the pieces" :-) I have both of those on my server box, which is where I'm testing what's available for her, but kipi-plugins isn't found be yum list or yum search. Strange when libkipi is there. Anne -- New to KDE4? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org Just found a cool new feature? Add it to UserBase
Attachment:
signature.asc
Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
_______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
