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I'm currently forced to work with a machine running Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. Since I'm usually working with the latest Ubuntu version and a corresponding modern desktop environment, I was quite disappointed that RHEL 6 by default only supports gnome and KDE versions from 2009. Working in any of them is just painful and feels like a time travel to the last century.

I'm not allowed to upgrade to RHEL 7 or install a different OS, but I have sudo privileges.

Is there a way how I could get any modern desktop environment up and running without an OS upgrade? I don't even care which one, I'd just like to have a version that's not 6 years old...

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  • Maybe tapping into EPEL and other repos might give you the ability to upgrade the Gnome desktop without rebasing the system. Might I ask why you are not allowed to install another OS, does your company not care about productivity?
    – Ura
    Sep 11, 2015 at 18:54
  • It's due to internally used, highly customized tools (for building etc.) that are integrated into their custom RHEL software repos. Setting this up on another system would allegedly be rather painful... Sep 14, 2015 at 10:28

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