One of the results of the weekend in FOSDEM was that I wanted to try CentOS. After downloading the DVD (5.1), the installation within VirtualBox went very smooth. It gives you the options ‘GNome Desktop’, ‘KDE Desktop’ or ‘Server’. Although I’m testing it for the last option, I, of course, picked the second, just to see what it looks like.

After installation and the usual wizzard for the usual stuff, it started KDE 3.5.4. The panel at the bottom showed some icons to the OpenOffice.org applications and an icon for ‘E-mail and managing calanders’. I clicked on it and… voila it started… EVOLUTION. Although I *might* understand that shipping Firefox as default browser instead of Konqueror ( not really, but ok ). I do not understand why they choose Evolution over Kontact. The rest of the KDE seems pretty standard.

Now it’s time to find out what CentOS does differently compared to say Debian when used as a server and explore their tools.