On Thu, April 28, 2016 1:40 am, Andreas Benzler wrote:
> Hello Brain,
>
> for such new software you go with Centos 7. The older version is more
> rocket stable,
> but in case you use such new laptop the newer one is the better / best
> choice.
>
> You need to upgrade the kernel, there is no way out. Centos deliver
> â??onlyâ??
> 2.6 or 3.10.
>
> http://elrepo.org/tiki/kernel-lt or http://elrepo.org/tiki/kernel-ml
> can fix this.
>
> - Totem and multimedia isnâ??t work fully. Gstreamer is cut down.
>
> Yesterday I installed my laptop with new hardware and most of it fully
> work,
> but it was hard to go. Why ? Take a look at my private repo
> http://centos.cms4all.org/centos/7/
> What it does? Update Kernel, Drivers, Mesa , GStreamer, Gutenprint
> (printers). Iâ??m
> liite bit of centos 7 and in this parts Iâ??m on my own.
>
> Donâ??t flame me - Ubuntu LTS 16.04 is on the way and this should work for
> you.
Ubuntu is clone of Debian. Don't flame me, I'm just mentioning.
Valeri
>
> The new nvidia series 9 will come with kernel 4.5 as i know (open source
> part)
>
> Greatings
>
> Andy
>
>> Am 28.04.2016 um 05:47 schrieb Valeri Galtsev
>> <galtsev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>>
>>
>> On Wed, April 27, 2016 10:07 pm, Brian Bernard wrote:
>>> Oh, I wouldn't flame you.
>>>
>>> Hmm, I didn't think of using a virtual machine. The Lenovo has a NVidia
>>> 960MX, so I wonder if it would fully work under a virtual machine.
>>
>> Probably not. Normally virtual machine does not have that level of
>> possession of hardware. At least Sun-Oracle Virtual Box doesn't.
>> Somebody
>> may correct me if I'm wrong here. If I were to do it, I would choose as
>> host system the system your software requiring OpenGL is available for.
>> And add other systems you need in virtual machines. Laptops, though
>> powerful these days, still not the best choice for virtual machines
>> IMHO.
>>
>> Valeri
>>
>>>
>>> The reason why I ask is that I do systems adminstration with
>>> meteorological
>>> software that requires OpenGL 2.0 and at least 2GB of video ram.
>>>
>>> Thank you for your reply, Mike.
>>>
>>> Brian Bernard
>>> On Apr 27, 2016 10:43 PM, "Mike Mohr" <akihana@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Don't flame me, but I really recommend using Ubuntu on laptops. If you
>>>> really want CentOS, you should go with version 7. Many new laptops
>>>> won't
>>>> work well with that either though.
>>>>
>>>> CentOS 6 only works well these days on older hardware or on virtual
>>>> machines.
>>>> On Apr 27, 2016 7:27 PM, "Brian Bernard"
>>>> <brian.brianbernard@xxxxxxxxx>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi all,
>>>>
>>>> I'm looking at buying a Lenovo Y700 Notebook, and wondering if it
>>>> would
>>>> work with CentOS 6. Or if anyone has experience with using it under
>>>> CentOS
>>>> 6. I assume that the WiFi could be an issue as it uses an Intel 8260
>>>> card.
>>>> I want to make the correct decision.
>>>>
>>>> Thank you,
>>>>
>>>> Brian Bernard
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