Considering CentOS 5.2

Since Fedora 8 onwards has had a problem with my video card, I've been forced to use OpenSUSE 11 and I'm not too happy about that! So, I'm considering installing CentOS 5.2. OS11 has some quirks that I don't like, one of them being YAST and another is the menu layout... and the biggest gripe is it's Novell

I just booted it to the graphical installer and it seems OK with my card and if a newer radeon driver borks it, I know how to remove it an install an older driver.

I've looked at the FAQ and installing codecs is easy and I suppose I would install Sun Java the same way I've always done with Fedora, using Stan Finley's old guide

I wonder if I'll miss anything by going with what is really an older version...

Just need to pluck up the courage

Wayne

[scottro]

Go for it.

Actually, it runs faster on my Aspire One then most other distros. Just be VERY careful about mixing repos, use the priorities thingie.

Add rpmfusion, the Dag repo, and that should give you just about everything you need.

Then, when you need a few extra things, you can use atrpms, but rather than enabling it, you can usually just grab an individual rpm.

The forums are more serious though, nothing like these, though there are a few of us who will throw in lighthearted comments.

Thanks Scott. I'm usually very careful about mixing repos I've seen too many newbies bork their systems by enabling every one they can find!

If it's like Fedora I probably won't need the forums, I hardly ever have any real problems... Unless it's my %^$%& hardware!

Wayne

OK. Just a couple of quick questions:

1. Can I install OpenOffice 3 from the official RPMs or one of its siblings? (OxygenOffice)

2. How is DBCS support? Same as Fedora?

Wayne

[scottro]

DBCS I'm not sure.
OO3--neither myself nor the estimable toracat have gotten it working with Japanese though I believe toracat has filed a bug with the OO people.
I don't believe you can get it from the official rpms, you'd have to do it the way we did in that Fedora thread.

To my embarrassment, I had to look up what DBCS is.
Yes, the Japanese support is excellent. Like Fedora (and unlike Ubuntu and FreeBSD) you can print a text Japanese document directly rather than manually running it through paps or other methods.

The one problem we've found is the OO3 and Japanese. (There's a thread where we're discussing it on the forums--the thread more or less ended with both of us saying, well, can't get it working.

However, you can do a Japanese doc in Abiword or whatever and then open it in OO3, you just can't write it in OO3.

I'm not worried about writing Japanese in OO3, just in the text editor and Kompozer.

By 'Official' I meant from openoffice.org and not from the centos repos

Wayne

[scottro]

Japanese works otherwise just fine.
Yes, the openoffice.org repo works the way it did in Fedora, the usual rpm -ivh *rpm or whatever it was that we did.