Dell Vostro 1500n with Centos/RHEL-5.1

Jos Vos jos at xos.nl
Sun Jan 6 22:19:09 UTC 2008


On Sun, Jan 06, 2008 at 11:59:50PM +0200, Ahmed Kamal wrote:

> I really appologize for asking this here, but here is as close as I could
> get. Most people only regard rhel/centos as server OS, and most bloggers
> will only install ubuntu on their laptops :)

I think this laptop-list has not many members (but I might be wrong)
and I personally had more success with asking laptop questions on
the "normal" (non-laptop) RHEL5 or Fedora lists.

> Thing is, Gentoo is super bleeding edge, and Ubuntu with patches and
> unofficial drivers is again bleeding edge, and that's not giving me a "cool
> feeling" rhel5 (is it what, almost one year old already OMG) is probably
> going to run!

This is a correct observation.  Even a system certified for SLES9 (IIRC)
didn't run RHEL4, just because it needed 915resolution (to patch the
Intel video chipset BIOS table).  This was easily fixable, but it shows
that only the target OS is a reliable test.

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