CentOS 5 :: Desktop Alternative To Ubuntu And Fedora?
Mar 31, 2009
I'm getting really fed up of all the bugs on Ubuntu and Fedora. Currently I manage 20-25 Optiplex 755 computers on my company. I tried Ubuntu and while it was great because of the repositories, the machines do not shutdown properly. Suspend is also a hit and miss. Well, I'm totally fed up of this. On the server side I use mostly CentOS and I am extremelly happy (except for the lack of VMI) with it.
Do you think CentOS will be a good alternative for my desktops? Is it comparable to Redhat Enterprise Desktop?
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May 30, 2011
Two general questions about Fedora 15 before I decide to install. My system typically starts in about 32 seconds, with a distro using normal boot scripts. With Ubuntu and upstart it reaches the gdm login screen quicker in around 18 - 24 seconds. With systemd does anyone get a noticeable difference?
Also, is it possible to use an alternative desktop to gnome3 in Fedora 15. I've tried Gnome3 with Arch and its very slick although not for me, as I like panels and desktop applets. (I should add that my times quoted were mesaured using bootchart with a default set of services, no tweaking).
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May 16, 2011
Having been totally happy with Ubuntu 10.04 and 10.10 but after a recent fresh install of 11.04 I find myself extremely stressed out with the desk top.I absolutely hate the unity desktop. It's flakey, unreliable, with random mouseclick issues, random application crashes and poor performance both in the increased time it now takes me to navigate to the apps that I want to fire up and in terms of really slow rendering of menus.It's awkward to start up multiple apps (I typically have my IDE, eMail client, browser, ssh terminals to remote servers and at least one terminal running at any one time)
I use my system as a serious development platform and I have come to the conclusion that 11.04 in it's default configuration format (and also with the classic log in being just as flakey) has to go. It's costing me too much in lost development time.So I'm faced with a decision, move back to using 10.10, stick with 11.04 but find a very much better desktop alternative to unity (and I don't mean the classic log in options as already explained) or I ditch Ubuntu in favour of an alternative distribution.
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Oct 27, 2010
I want to create some scheduled jobs in a CentOS server. These jobs are simple and repeatable, but the scheduling is complicated. I want a series of jobs to start every day but Monday, and not on the last day of the month. These jobs depend on software execution outside the server ( a Windows application) so if the Windows app fails, I need to temporarily suspend the cron jobs so I can straighten out the Windows server.
I've looked over some cron alternatives and nothing seems suitable. Am I stuck with cron and the limitations of crontab, or are there some programmatic things I can do in cron that I don't know about?
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Nov 12, 2010
i am a fresher to linux. presently i am using CentOS for getting some experience in that. but i have a problem with internet connection using in CentOS. i am using prolink USB ADSL2+ modem (H5200U). so, i request from all readers to give alternative answer.
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Apr 6, 2010
Using Centos 5.4 I've successfully set up pppd and wvdial to automatically dial out but I need wvdial to call an alternative number if the number is busy or dialout fails for some other reason and I cannot get this to work. I've gone back to basics and tried manually soliciting wvdial with a minimal wvdial.conf:
[Dialer ppp-client]
Password = secret
Modem = /dev/ttyS1
Phone = 11111111111
Phone1 = 22222222222
[Code]...
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Apr 13, 2011
SPICE has been getting there for a while now and seems to be a very capable mechanism for running remote desktops. (You see where I'm going?) Virtual desktops have a good chance of becoming all the rage if SPICE gets a low enough latency implementation. But what about applying that low latency implementation to running over a physical layer? Who says the host machine has to be a virtual box? (See where I'm going now?) Does anyone know if I can start using SPICE as an alternative to NX for example?
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Aug 11, 2011
Alternate for Nymgo. As i use fedora 14 and only for nymgo, i have to log on to windows.
Nymgo is a software through which I can call home phone or mobile... it is just VOIP and not Video phone...
Also it is giving me much cheaper rate than Skype..
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Dec 27, 2009
I asking for an alternative to nautilus. The problem I have with nautilus is that it take up too much screen real estate, the icons are too big, etc. My screen is 1280 x 1024 and I dont plan on going higher.
Any alternative should have the option of using small, smaller icons and when resized keeps the smaller size the next time the file browser window is opened.
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Jun 9, 2011
i have an iPhone 4 - white 32GB.
I run Fedora 14-64bit.
(I also have a win XP pro installation on my machine - but no dual-boot)
I would very much like to be able to transfer music to my iPhone, from my linux-fedora, which the iPod device on the iPhone is able to see...
I have successfully transferred several "libgpod-something.mp3" files to my iPhone, but I can't play them on my iPhone.
I have tried the following software:
Rhythmbox (came with Fedora 14), here i am able to see the content of my iPhone, and transfer libgpod files. But I cannot see any music folder under the iPhone icon. So I just drag and drop .mp3 files to iPhone. iPhone can't see them.
Banshee (newest available version installed with add/remove programs), here I'm also able to see the content of the iPhone, and I can see a music folder icon under the iPhone icon, but I can't drag and drop to the music folder, but I can drag and drop to the iPhone icon, and the files gets transferred, but again iPhone can't see them. But I can play the transferred files from Banshee...
Gtkpod (newest available version installed with add/remove programs), is largely the same as Rhythmbox, but i get a warning that says: Extended info will not be used, when the iPhone is mounted. There is no music folder icon, but only a poscast icon, under the iPhone icon. And again, I'm able to transfer files to the iPhone, that my iPhone can't see...
In Gtkpod, there is no option for the white iPhone 4, so I've used the "xC605" profile, which is for the black iPhone 4, 32GB.
I'm also able to see content of my iPhone with nautilus. I discovered that the linux software I'm using, are converting the .mp3 files into "libgpod" files, but iTunes(transferred with WinXP) is converting the .mp3 files into "XXXX.mp3" files (X= is for random letters).
Is this significant?
I've also just updated libimobiledevice with "libimobiledevice-1.0.6-1.fc14.x86_64.rpm", but my iPhone still can't see any of the linux transferred files. Only the iTunes transferred files.
Believe me I've tried and tried for a week now. I've searched a lot, but most of the hits in my search, were for Ubuntu...
My iPhone is not jailbroken.
Am I missing something here, is my iPhone 4 supposed to be jailbroken to work with the above mentioned software?
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Nov 9, 2010
I am installing the quake4SDK on RHEL , it needs gcc-3.3 , but I have gcc 4.1.How can I install an alternative gcc3.3, without getting rid of the newest one , and solely to get this program to compile ??? I know there is an "alternative" managing system , but don't know how it works.
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Oct 3, 2009
i find this is an issue which might be tiresome for everyone except for those experts. Esp. for the computers which are dual booting(both windows xp and centos installed in the same computer), that when we are in CentOS we need to switch onto windows immediately. and vice versa. i see this is possible only by shutting down the centos/windows and then restarting onto the other OS.
Can anyone tell me the the solution to work simultaneously both xp and centos without the need of shutting down and restarting There maybe or may not be the solution...but i find the pleasure to know if there is for example, remote desktop connection in windows xp, is there any solution, we can work on windows via centos or vice versa ( in the same machine),
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Mar 28, 2009
I am trying to install CentOS 5.2 on an HP rp5700 desktop unit. These units were originally sold as a Point of Sales unit I believe, but HP also markets it as a high life cycle server for SMB market.I tried to load CentOS on this unit via CD (created from downloaded ISO of course). It presents the initial CentOS banner page and waits for the obligatory "enter" to continue. It begins the boot process up to discovering the PCI stuff and just locks up, no response. I have to power down to restart.Since this does not even get to the point of installing. I am at a loss what to do next. Has anyone had a similar issue with other PCs.The boot stops at the lineACPI: PCI Root Bridge [PCI0] (0000:00)
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Apr 1, 2010
My Dell poweredge server running CentOS 5.4 and booting kernel-2.6.18-164.15.1.el5. All boot processes seem okay and the graphical screens for CentOS operate, but just before the desktop loads the screen goes blank and the arrow/cursor is being circled by small spheres. This remains indefinitely. While the arrow is being circled, here are the results of 'getinfo.sh device'
Quote:==================== BEGIN uname -rmi ====================
2.6.18-164.15.1.el5 i686 i386
==================== END uname -rmi ====================
[code]....
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Jul 29, 2010
I'm currently in the last steps of migrating a CentOS mailserver to the x64 version.However, under the old 32 bit version, I was using XRDP to access the Centos box from my Windows boxes.However I can't seem to find the XRDP package in the standard repos so this is prompting me to look at possible alternatives (XRDP was incompatible with my windows 7 box anyway soI had to RDP to another server of ours running 2003 to RDP into the mailserver which was far from ideal).Basically, I'd like to be able to seamlessly access the Centos box with a standard RDP client.
I know VNC Server/Clients would be an option but RDP gives me the freedom of any windows box being able to access the server on the same adress/port without installing software on any windows box I encounter.Are there any viable alternatives to XRDP ?There's no "add-on" to VNC server that could enable it to accept RDP connections ?
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Mar 9, 2011
I am running Centos VM on Windows Virtual PC. I have installed the GNOME desktop environment using yum groupinstall 'X Window System' 'GNOME Desktop Environment'and then when i did gave startx command, the desktop environment was not at all clear. As I am new to this, i am not sure how to use it too.
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Jul 11, 2011
now i want to remove to due to upgrade the system using the latest centos system, but now i cant remove it, try to format my desktop also cannot. when im entering the bios its show GNU GRUB. im also need to install xp for my new study project..
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May 27, 2011
I'm running Fedora 15 with Gnome 3. I installed Gnome-Do using 'yum install gnome-do'. I opened it from the Terminal by typing 'gnome-do' but I keep getting an error message that says
Could not load desktop item: libgnome-desktop-2.so.17
Gnome-Do opens but it doesn't display any application I search for and when I try opening the Gnome-Do preferences, it quits.
I installed gnome-desktop-2.32.0-8.fc16.i686.rpm from here: [url] and then installed Gnome-Do. Everything works fine now.
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Sep 10, 2010
Could you please help me to get the "Multiple Desktop Windows Icons" back on my KDE desktop panel?I accidentally disabled it by right clicking on bottom left of the panel and now i am not able to restore it back through System Setting > Multiple Desktop
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Jun 26, 2011
I just installed Fedora 15 with the gnome desktop which looks like the android system for mobile phones, I installed wine which put the icons on my desktop but whenever I install a windows app it doesn't put an icon on my desktop for that particular application. How would I add an icon for those window apps so I can lunch them from the desktop, I don't know if you call that the desktop or just the program luncher either way how do I put an icon there so I can run those windows apps from there?
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Jul 23, 2011
I used to use Gwibber as social networks aggregator/client, but starting since last update (current version 3.1.0) it crashes miserably on both Fedora 14 and Fedora 15.
Gwibber team looks reluctant to provide any feedback on whether this shall be fixed in foreseeable future. Installing Gwibber from the last stable sources gives the same crash.
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Dec 17, 2009
when I turned on my desktop workstation, I found that Desktop icons have disappeared and I can't right-clik the Desktop , aning found any option on desktop like Application,Places and system
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Jul 13, 2010
I have installed Fedora 13 sucessfully and rebooted my computer for its first run of Fedora. When it comes time to load the desktop I only get the desktop and nothing else. I noticed that my mouse can run off the side of the screen on the left or right. I've tried rebooting and the only thing that changes is which side the mouse runs off.
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Feb 17, 2009
and what is the diffrent. i now about the server only use command and desktop use both so. am trying to host some sites which one will you recomend.
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Jan 6, 2010
Normally Ctrl-Alt-L or clicking on "Lock Session" works, but as of the past couple of days when I do these, nothing happens. What could be wrong?
I also tried 'sudo kdesktop_lock' and 'sudo kdesktop_lock --forcelock' to no avail.
CentOS 5.4, KDE, all packages up to date.
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Apr 9, 2010
I have a CentOS 5 machine here, running Gnome. It has the proprietary ati screen driver, driving twin monitors in Xinerama. I have it set to auto-login as me. It has worked fine for ages.
This morning when I booted it up, instead of getting my usual desktop, I got 2 completely black screens, with an X-shaped mouse cursor. The cursor will move between the two screens OK, so I guess X has started, but I have no display manager. Or something. I have never really understood how X starts up, so I am now at a total loss as to how to find out what is wrong, and fix it. I can get to a login prompt by pressing Ctrl-Alt-F2, but I'm not sure which files to mess with when I get there. I have studied the X log in /var/log/messages, but there are no errors in there.
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Apr 6, 2011
I have been allotted a centos system, whose desktop is dead. i.e
1) I can't right click on the desktop.
2) Even if some files are present in /home/nikunj/Desktop , I cant see it on desktop. Its totally blank !!
3) I can go to /home/nikunj/Desktop ( On terminal and gui ) and read/write stuff from there.
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Feb 8, 2010
How to configure Remote Desktop in CentOS 5.3 that allow desktop remote from Windows XP?
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Nov 13, 2009
my KDE and gnome desktop don't work ,but root's works. Now when I log in I have just a black screen. From several days ago after liging in and working for hours I had just a black screen that waiting for it to appear normally diden't respond, and I finally had to reset system. What was its main job these days was running longtime fortran programs.I have CentOs 5.2 .
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Dec 22, 2009
When i try to enable desktop effects on my dell inspiron 1440 running on CentOS 5.4 x86_64, this message is displayed:-'Desktop effects do not work with Xinerama'
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