On Sat, 2008-04-05 at 14:54 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: > Alan Bartlett wrote: > > > > (2) We must not loose sight of what CentOS basically is. CentOS == RHEL less > > RH. A stable, server orientated OS. On the fora, we often see evidence that > > CentOS is believed to be similar to *other* distros (that are more suitable > > for laptops & "home" use) and that it, CentOS, can be loaded onto typical > > laptops or home PCs. Then the grumbling starts about the non-operation of a > > bottom-of-the-range NIC or video controller or how multi-media doesn't work > > straight out of the box. The complaints that really irritate me are those > > that end with ". . . . whilst 'foo' (or 'bar' or 'xyzzy' or 'y2') runs o.k. > > on my hardware. So why doesn't CentOS?" > > This is more a symptom of the kernel age than anything else, and with > the backported drivers that sometimes end up in CentOS, this is subject > to change as the minor version numbers get their install images rebuilt. > And with the CentOS plus kernel, this doesn't necessarily track RHEL > exactly either. Is there a place to find out whether a certain piece of > hardware will work that stays up to date with the updates? Ignore the ls >log command. it would take a lil more than that after looking at the kernell source code. Slightly bit more complicated than that. > -- ~/john OpenPGP Sig:BA91F079 _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos