On Sat, Jun 6, 2009 at 5:15 PM, Robert Heller<heller@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> CentOS, like RHEL is a 'conservitive' distro and won't release unstable
> or "cutting edge" versions. Many open source projects release 'beta'
> test versions of code, as well as older, more stable versions. Linux
> distributions can make a choice: use the older, more stable version and
> thus not support hardware that is 'hot off the showroom floor' (this is
> what CentOS does). Or be cutting edge and include the latest release
> (this is what Ubuntu does). This means that maybe if you install
> CentOS on the computer you bought brand new yesterday you might have
> trouble getting the X11 to work very will (or with all of the latest
> wizbang hardware accel, etc.). You might get it to work if you
> installed Ubuntu, or might have other troubles (because the XOrg
> release is somewhat beta test... OTOH, if you are not using cutting
> edge hardware and/or have no need of cutting edge software, CentOS will
> do what you need to do and will do so for like 7 years.
Thanks. I wasn't quite sure how that worked. I thought maybe we were
just behind the curve a bit and that our Intel Graphics problem would
come in a year or so. But then, I kind of hoped that wouldn't be a
problem since Red Hat is on so many business machines and a lot of
those come standard with Intel Graphics. (Then, again, not too many
businesses are worried about making 3D graphics work on their business
desktops.)
I always use trailing edge hardware so CentOS is a good fit for me.
Thanks for writing.
--
RonB -- Using CentOS 5.3
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