[TriLUG] How does one install LXDE or Xfce on CentOS?

[Jonathan Mainguy]

Rhel 5 bet on xen. Rhel 6 and 7 use kvm
On Jan 1, 2015 7:04 PM, "William Sutton" <william at trilug.org> wrote:

> AFAIK, based on what I've seen of the default OEL installation, RHEL
> probably comes stock with all sorts of user environment packages, including
> X.  it also appears to run xen services by default; not entirely sure why
> that is.
>
> William Sutton
>
> On Thu, 1 Jan 2015, Ken M wrote:
>
>  Don't know.  These days my most common use case for installing CentOS
>> would be in a headless virtual instance.  I think the base CentOS lacking
>> any type of simple lightweight window manager is kind of a big oversight.
>> Not sure if that is sourced from RHEL itself.  But I know many like to set
>> up a VNC instance even on a typically headless server and if they are like
>> me I have always liked something like fluxbox in that case.
>>
>> Ken
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Jan 01, 2015 at 10:47:06AM -0500, David Both wrote:
>>
>>> This thread brings up a question in my mind. Will the split between
>>> server
>>> and workstation in Fedora find its way downstream to RHEL and CentOS as
>>> well? Might this lack of desktop options in CentOS be the precursor to
>>> that?
>>>
>>> On 01/01/2015 10:42 AM, Ken M wrote:
>>> >Update to earlier post.  TWM is in the epel as well.
>>> >
>>> >On Thu, Jan 01, 2015 at 01:42:13AM -0500, Steve Litt wrote:
>>> >>On Wed, 31 Dec 2014 14:59:48 -0500 (EST)
>>> >>William Sutton <william at trilug.org> wrote:
>>> >>
>>> >>>I wonder if he's trying CentOS as a proxy for my query about RHEL the
>>> >>>other day.
>>> >>>
>>> >>>William Sutton
>>> >>Not yours, but someone's.
>>> >>
>>> >>About a week ago I had an energetic discussion with someone (can't
>>> >>remember whom or what list or channel) claiming that my replacing the
>>> >>init on Fedora would not be "taking the fight to Redhat". So I figured
>>> >>"screw it, I'll switch out the init on CentOS, we all *know* that's
>>> >>Redhat."
>>> >>
>>> >>I couldn't have possibly suspected that the only desktops I could get
>>> >>on CentOS without hoopjumping were Gnome and KDE. I mean, who does
>>> >>that? Every Linux distro and BSD I ever tried had either LXDE or Xfce,
>>> >>and all of them had Openbox, all with just a simple apt-get install or
>>> >>packman -S. I can't work with Gnome because of its weird interface, and
>>> >>KDE isn't conducive to the seven year old experimental computer I'm
>>> >>using. And it's hard to replace an init when you're having trouble
>>> >>running a browser, a Gvim, and a terminal. Ugh! Also, I doubt I'd ever
>>> >>switch to a Redhat derivative, so I don't want to spend a lot of time
>>> >>learning yum.
>>> >>
>>> >>So I'll see if it's easier to put LXDE on Fedora, after which I'll
>>> >>switch out the init system.
>>>
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