On Fri, Nov 07, 2014 at 03:35:51PM -0800, ToddAndMargo wrote:
> 
> I think that SL 6.x was usable as a workstation, even though
> it has its legs somewhat broken.  But SL 7 is now really
> only useful as a server.
> 

I do not see how this follows. You do not show any example where SL7 is worse than SL6,
i.e. package not available in SL7, or SL7 package is older than SL6, etc.

If you compare with Fedora, you should include the small print spelling out "* Fedora has to be reinstalled every 6 months"
and "** each new Fedora comes with new features even if you do not want them".

If you compare with Ubuntu, you should mention that "learning Debian system management tools is required. yum, rpm not available, etc"

If you talk about firefox, my SL7 test machine has firefox-31.2.0-3.el7_0.x86_64 (vs firefox-31.2.0-3.el6_6.x86_64 on SL6, the same version).

It looks to me like yum updates of your SL7 machine are broken and you are not seeing or getting any updated packages.

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