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List of supported personal productivity applications. The following are the applications supported by the HelpDesk Help Desk IT Desktop Support Team (ITDS) team. These are standard RPM packages supported by Red Hat (in progress – this is not a complete list), or else standard supported applications (such as Outlook Web Access email web client).
| Application Name | Description | RPM name(s) | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Firefox | web browser | firefox | |
| LibreOffice | office suite | libreoffice, libreoffice-* | |
| OWA | email client | N/A | https://email.slac.stanford.edu/owa/ |
Graphics Card Support
CentOS 7 includes supported drivers for proprietary graphics cards such as nVidia and ATI. These supported drivers are included with each kernel update, so when you reboot into a new kernel, an updated graphics kernel module is available and your graphics will work.
ITDS specifically does not support graphics drivers that are not part of the standard operating system. If you want to replace the CentOS 7 support noveau driver with the proprietary Nvidia driver (for example), you are now responsible for any graphics configuration on your machine. ITDS is not responsible for supporting non-standard graphics drivers. When you replace the noveau driver with the Nvidia driver, special steps are required to verify the noveau driver gets blacklisted. Also, each kernel update will require you to rebuild the Nvidia kernel module. This is a non-standard configuration and is not covered under central support, because of the relationship between updated kernels and patching policy, the manual process of rebuilding the Nvidia kernel module with each kernel update, and the reboot policy. If you wish to install the Nvidia driver, you need to have a documented procedure in place regarding how often you update the kernel, when you reboot the kernel, and when you rebuild the Nvidia kernel module after you reboot into a new kernel.
List of recommended yum repositories. We do not recommend adding any yum repository other than the ones listed below.
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We do not recommend these repositories: ATrpms, RPMForge, RepoForge. Those repositories do not play well with RHEL or CentOS. You can easily break your system due to distribution RPMs being replaced by the third party RPMs, and therefore causing rpm dependency problems that prevent routine security patches from being applied. If you need RPMs or software that you cannot find in the recommended repositories above, email unix-admin@slac.stanford.edu for advice.
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