Re: [CentOS] Laptop for CentOS-5

2010-01-09 Thread Chris W Tucker
> > Assuming you wanted an answer... For one thing the powerbooks got 'close > lid, sleep, open lid wake up, grab a fresh network connection and > continue' right about a decade ago and the odds of that working with any > PC hardware/OS combination even today are pretty dismal and it makes a > lapt

Re: [CentOS] Laptop for CentOS-5

2010-01-09 Thread Chris W Tucker
> >> I also have a Macbook Pro running CentOS just fine as well. However Fedora >> is a lot farther ahead driver wise and application wise. It also took >> longer to configure CentOS to a good state. > > I'm not sure I'd call it running CentOS if you had to add > drivers/components/firmware to mak

Re: [CentOS] Laptop for CentOS-5

2010-01-09 Thread Chris W Tucker
> > That's your opinion. I'm perfectly happy running CentOS on my Dell XPS > M1330, and furthermore pretty much everything works fine straight out of > the box: > Wait, that cannot be so. Another happy user? :) ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] Laptop for CentOS-5

2010-01-09 Thread Chris W Tucker
>> >> So what you are essentially saying is any OS that you install on any >> machine, that you have to add drivers to, is not running that OS?? > > Not in the sense that you can say the OS 'works' on the hardware in question. > You might say you can make it work if you add/replace parts. > Ok, I

Re: [CentOS] In the press, once again

2010-09-24 Thread Chris W Tucker
* Timo Schoeler (timo.schoe...@riscworks.net) wrote: > May be a little bit off topic, but this gave me hard laugh: > > http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/09/24/sysadmin_file_tools/ > > Windows admins use a virtualized CentOS machine to copy files because > their own tools are not able to handle co