[GTALUG] XFCE on regular Red Hat

[William Park]

Have you looked into Xubuntu (14.04.2)?  It is "long term support".
-- 
William

On Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 06:41:13PM -0400, David Collier-Brown wrote:
> For a long time, I've been using the Fedora XFCE spin, but wanted to build a
> new for-work dev machine and got RHEL 7.2, so I would have a supported
> version to host recent tools on.
> 
> Fedora is fun, but tends to lag in app versions while being at the bleeding
> edge in kernel versions, which is fine for a toy machine, but the inverse of
> what I want for a machine to make money with..
> 86_64 GNU/Linux
> 
> Alas, RHEL 7.2  seems to be much *more* broken than Fedora fc 21
> Yum can't even do a groupinstall, and half the required packages for xfce
> are in neither the Red Hat nor the EPEL repositories.
> Building XFCE from scratch exposes even more missing dependencies
> 
> This seems odd, as many people with slightly earlier 7.X releases did
> $ sudo yum install epel-release
> $ sudo yum groupinstall "X Window system"
> $ sudo yum groupinstall xfce
> and were done.
> 
> Is this just a bad release, or has RH been degrading while I was using
> something else?
> Should I downgrade to 6? Use KDE? Switch to a different distro?
> 
> What are you folks using for prod?
> 
> --dave
> $uname -a
> Linux miles 3.10.0-229.7.2.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Fri May 15 21:38:46 EDT 2015
> x86_64 x86_64 x
> 
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