Sorin Srbu wrote:
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From: centos-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:centos-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On
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Of William L. Maltby
Sent: Monday, May 25, 2009 2:24 PM
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Subject: Re: Auto-installing security updates?
Probably not the best distro for Laptops,
but many people on this list are using CentOS on their laptops.
So what's considered to be the "best" choice for laptops? I understand
mileage may vary and so on, but I think there might maybe be a general
consensus at least?
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Not likely on this list. More likely, a "preponderance", maybe even a
"majority", but I wouldn't be surprised if even those aren't achieved.
BTW, "general" is redundant with "consensus".
I'm sorry. I'm not a native English speaker or writer.
Ok, so what would you guys suggest using on a laptop, if CentOS was not an
option? I read in an earlier post where somebody suggested chosing distro
based on the hardware. Suppose this hardware is a Dell Latitude a few years
old, with no built-in wifi, but rather either a Dlink DFE-680TXD or a 3com
3CRWE154G72.
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Sorin,
I have installed and used CentOS on laptops just fine. The last two even
had the internal wireless work without effort. You may need to do some
work to get the wireless functioning okay - NetworkManager seems to help
if you use both wired and wireless.
For me the advantage of using CentOS is that all machines have the same
stuff in the same place, so I do not waste time looking for files and
trying to work out how Ubuntu or whatever distro does something.
Also, I keep a local mirror of updates so I only need to use bandwidth
once to get my updates.
I used to use Fedora, but got annoyed at having to do complete updates
every 12 ~ 18 months.
I'd just try it and see, one can always grab another distro if CentOS is
really too difficult to get functioning.
Rob
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