Hi Tony,
I've installed CentOS7 on a Latitude 7470 and can say for a fact
that most of the suff just works, while some of it that doesn't (like HDMI,
or KMS, nifty little feature I like to have) works with an Elrepo LT or ML kernels.
Personally, I'd recommend the LT kernel. I also read in the RHEL 7.3 release notes that
I2C support for Gen6 mobile CPUs was introduced. Thus as the time passes, say 6 months from
now, one should be able to drop the LT/ML kernel in favor of the stock RHEL/CentOS kernel.
On a side note, the Latitude design/sturdiness impressions were much better than that
of a Lenovo X1 Carbon gen4.
Regards,
Milos.
On Tue, Nov 22, 2016 at 03:23:08PM +0000, Tony Molloy wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm recently retired from my university job. I am looking for a laptop
> to run CentOS 6/7. My university was a traditional Dell site so I've
> used Latitude laptops for years, currently E6500/E6510.
>
> Anybody got any experience of running CentOS on the newer Dell
> Latitudes E5000 or E7000. These are not certified according to Redhats'
> Hardware Guide.
>
> Alternatively Precision Workstations would do. These can be supplied
> with Ubuntu installed so they run Linux.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Tony
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