Today it decided to just hang on the loading/login screen, but still allowed me to interact with the mouse and power button to log off/restart. There might be demand, given the target audience of RHEL7.I recently tried to switch my desktop environment back over to KDE plasma after using XFCE and gnome for a while. Not sure if RHEL7 will have it in their main repo or not. I wouldn't take much to get Mate 1.6 into EPEL I think. I pull from EPEL when I can, RPMFusion when it's not there. EPEL 7beta is available, but it doesn't yet have a lot of stuff in it. So my core is still 95% rhel7beta but I have a lot of Fedora 19 stuff installed, including from rpmfusion.
Lots of packages I need to just make my desktop usable (media players, utilities like gnome-do, etc), as well as software I want to use, I pull from fedora. (I use the yum priorities plugin to do this). This way it's as close to clean rhel7beta as possible. I told yum to always prefer rhel7beta repos when there is a same version of a package in the fedora repo.
Mate rpms from Fedora 19 install on rhel7beta with a minimum of dependency problems. So it has a definite path forward to the future, while staying with the traditional gnome2 panels and way of doing things. It already has been moved to use gsettings instead of gconf, and uses Gnome3's network manager applet. Yeah Mate works as well as gnome2 did, in my opinion. You might have to install other packages too like maybe mate-terminal and any of the mate-* stuff you want. Yum -enablerepo=fedora -enablerepo=fedora-updates install mate-session-manager caja marco Note that these repos are disabled by default. Gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-19-$basearch '*' selects all, F5 copies.įinally create the repo files in /etc//fedora.repo (notice I replace some variables with 19, since el7 would set the var to 7): Go into the virtual CONTENTS.cpio folder and into etc/pki/rpm-gpg and copy all the gpg keys to your local folder of the same name. Then use the mc utility to open the rpm (yum install mc).
I normally just download odd rpms from here: Probably won't get around to it, so I'll just write a few things here.įirst grab the fedora-release rpm from the fedora 19 installation tree. I don't have an interest in maintaining them long-term, and I'm certain they'll end up in epel or another repository shortly. I've been asked already about posting the rpms that I've built for the 7 beta, but I don't want to do this. Once the i686 sig build of el7 is ready for additional packages, this rpm abuse shouldn't be needed any longer.
The fact that skype is 32bit only complicated things slightly, as I had to borrow qt-mobility.i686 and qtwebkit.i686 from fedora to deal with the install dependencies. I was even able to get skype working in the el7 beta reasonably easily. The 'fedora' chrome packages google offers work flawlessly as well. For me these packages were transmission, pidgin-otr, thunderbird and its assorted plugins. Nearly all of these packages can rebuild cleanly for el7, using mock and the f19 srpms. All you have to do is transition from gnome to KDE, where these features are alive and well.Īpart from the gnome adjustment, there are a few things that I use regularly which just aren't in the beta. If you find that you absolutely must have the wobbly windows, and desktop cube effects which are available in el6 then you're in luck.
For the most part this seems like it will be a reasonably easy transition, though admittedly I play with fedora frequently so the gnome2 to gnome3 transition is something I've already handled. In the interest of preparing for the el7 release, I've decided to attempt to migrate my primary machine to the el7 beta.