Trying CentOS

Posted by toma on February 28, 2008; This entry is filed under English.

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.

3 Comments

  1. Anoniemoes February 28th, 2008 at 16:03

    …it has (half-assed barely working) Microsoft Exchange support. I know you can enable IMAP in Exchange but many businesses don’t. Even then Evolution is still the only option if you use shared calendars etc. etc.

    You could say why don’t they choose Thunderbird over Evolution, or Kontact. They have used Firefox after all.

  2. Nick February 28th, 2008 at 16:32

    CentOS is for corporate types usually. Corp means having exchange support…Evolution it is!

    Nick

  3. vpv February 28th, 2008 at 18:46

    CentOS is – of course – based on Red Hat and RH is a Gnome company, so I guess that’s why they offer Evolution as a default. We’ll see if that’ll change in the future now that there’s a strong KDE special interest group in Fedora…