On 10/02/2014 12:39 AM, Devin Reade wrote:
On Oct 1, 2014, at 22:57, Frank Cox thea...@melvilletheatre.com wrote:
[...]
Since it has now become amazingly difficult to get a laptop if you're not
planning to use Windows, at least around here, I'm wondering what the rest
of you fine folks do
On Wed, 2014-10-01 at 22:57 -0600, Frank Cox wrote:
Today I found myself in need of a laptop to run Centos on. And that simple
statement led to an all-day odyssey.
My original plan was to purchase a laptop and install Centos 6 on it. I went
to Staples and tried booting it on every model
On Sat, 2014-10-04 at 12:56 +0100, Phil Wyett wrote:
On Wed, 2014-10-01 at 22:57 -0600, Frank Cox wrote:
Today I found myself in need of a laptop to run Centos on. And that simple
statement led to an all-day odyssey.
My intention is to run CentOS 6.x and VM Windows and any other OS
On 10/4/14, Phil Wyett philwy...@aura-tech-systems.co.uk wrote:
My intention is to run CentOS 6.x and VM Windows and any other OS etc.
After discarding many options I seem to have settled with an eye on a HP
ProBook 455 G2.
On Sat, 2014-10-04 at 14:58 +0100, Always Learning wrote:
On Sat, 2014-10-04 at 12:56 +0100, Phil Wyett wrote:
On Wed, 2014-10-01 at 22:57 -0600, Frank Cox wrote:
Today I found myself in need of a laptop to run Centos on. And that
simple statement led to an all-day odyssey.
My
On Sat, October 4, 2014 8:58 am, Always Learning wrote:
On Sat, 2014-10-04 at 12:56 +0100, Phil Wyett wrote:
On Wed, 2014-10-01 at 22:57 -0600, Frank Cox wrote:
Today I found myself in need of a laptop to run Centos on. And that
simple statement led to an all-day odyssey.
My intention
Hello Frank,
On Wed, 1 Oct 2014 22:57:30 -0600 Frank Cox thea...@melvilletheatre.com wrote:
Today I found myself in need of a laptop to run Centos on. And that simple
statement led to an all-day odyssey.
[snip]
Since it has now become amazingly difficult to get a laptop if you're not
My asus laptop booted linux fine... until the motherboard fried though.
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op 02-10-14 09:01, wwp schreef:
Hello Frank,
On Wed, 1 Oct 2014 22:57:30 -0600 Frank Cox thea...@melvilletheatre.com wrote:
Today I found myself in need of a laptop to run Centos on. And that simple
statement led to an all-day odyssey.
[snip]
Since it has now become amazingly difficult
Hello,
On Thu, 02 Oct 2014 11:01:19 +0200 Johan Vermeulen jvermeu...@cawdekempen.be
wrote:
op 02-10-14 09:01, wwp schreef:
Hello Frank,
On Wed, 1 Oct 2014 22:57:30 -0600 Frank Cox thea...@melvilletheatre.com
wrote:
Today I found myself in need of a laptop to run Centos on. And
On Wed, 2014-10-01 at 22:57 -0600, Frank Cox wrote:
I'm wondering what the rest of you fine folks do when it comes to purchasing
a laptop?
Been using CentOS.available on a series of Dell Precision laptops
(M4300, M4600) since 2007 or so without much difficulty.
Thinkpad T series, and fully agree with Devin. Rock-solid, and pretty much
all the pieces work - even Optimus.
Still, CentOS would never be my first choice for a personal laptop ...
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Many years ago I purchased a Dell Inspiron direct from Dell and had very similar
issues, so it is not just WinBloze 8, it is that the systems are intentionally
set up to make it difficult. Took me about 3 hours just to get to the BIOS
because the window of time was less than 1 second to hit the
1. use Fedora Live instead of CentOS for boot test, then install
CentOS and replace the kernel with ELRepo kernel-ml. This is
usually newer even than Fedora's, thus presumably with much
better support for new HW than stock CentOS.
Of course, the risk here is that CentOS would not
op 02-10-14 11:33, wwp schreef:
Hello,
On Thu, 02 Oct 2014 11:01:19 +0200 Johan Vermeulen jvermeu...@cawdekempen.be
wrote:
op 02-10-14 09:01, wwp schreef:
Hello Frank,
On Wed, 1 Oct 2014 22:57:30 -0600 Frank Cox thea...@melvilletheatre.com wrote:
Today I found myself in need of a
On 10/2/2014 12:01 AM, wwp wrote:
Dell Latitude series, from the old D810 to more recent E65xx ones.
well, I'd have said D600 to E64xx, as those big ones are boat anchors
for travel.
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Hello Johan,
On Thu, 02 Oct 2014 14:16:05 +0200 Johan Vermeulen jvermeu...@cawdekempen.be
wrote:
op 02-10-14 11:33, wwp schreef:
Hello,
On Thu, 02 Oct 2014 11:01:19 +0200 Johan Vermeulen
jvermeu...@cawdekempen.be wrote:
op 02-10-14 09:01, wwp schreef:
Hello Frank,
On
On Thu, October 2, 2014 7:16 am, Johan Vermeulen wrote:
op 02-10-14 11:33, wwp schreef:
Hello,
On Thu, 02 Oct 2014 11:01:19 +0200 Johan Vermeulen
jvermeu...@cawdekempen.be wrote:
op 02-10-14 09:01, wwp schreef:
Hello Frank,
On Wed, 1 Oct 2014 22:57:30 -0600 Frank Cox
On 10/02/2014 07:02 AM isdtor wrote:
Thinkpad T series, and fully agree with Devin. Rock-solid, and pretty much
all the pieces work - even Optimus.
Still, CentOS would never be my first choice for a personal laptop ...
Why not? (Not disagreeing, not either agreeing. Just wondering about
On 2 October 2014 14:22, ken geb...@mousecar.com wrote:
On 10/02/2014 07:02 AM isdtor wrote:
Thinkpad T series, and fully agree with Devin. Rock-solid, and pretty much
all the pieces work - even Optimus.
Still, CentOS would never be my first choice for a personal laptop ...
Why not? (Not
On Oct 2, 2014 9:23 PM, ken geb...@mousecar.com wrote:
On 10/02/2014 07:02 AM isdtor wrote:
Thinkpad T series, and fully agree with Devin. Rock-solid, and pretty
much
all the pieces work - even Optimus.
Still, CentOS would never be my first choice for a personal laptop ...
Why not? (Not
On Thu, 2014-10-02 at 14:48 +0100, isdtor wrote:
A
new and recent requirement is to keep the machine free of
poetteringware as much as possible.
Too optimistic. As Johnny states: what is in RHEL is, inevitably, in
Centos.
I'm staying on Centos 6 .. for as long as possible.
Regards,
On Thu, October 2, 2014 9:02 am, Always Learning wrote:
On Thu, 2014-10-02 at 14:48 +0100, isdtor wrote:
A
new and recent requirement is to keep the machine free of
poetteringware as much as possible.
Too optimistic. As Johnny states: what is in RHEL is, inevitably, in
Centos.
I'm
op 02-10-14 15:01, Valeri Galtsev schreef:
On Thu, October 2, 2014 7:16 am, Johan Vermeulen wrote:
op 02-10-14 11:33, wwp schreef:
Hello,
On Thu, 02 Oct 2014 11:01:19 +0200 Johan Vermeulen
jvermeu...@cawdekempen.be wrote:
op 02-10-14 09:01, wwp schreef:
Hello Frank,
On Wed, 1 Oct 2014
On 10/01/2014 11:57 PM, Frank Cox wrote:
I'm wondering what the rest of you fine folks do when it comes to purchasing a
laptop? Next time this comes up, I'd rather not have to spend all day on
something that used to take fifteen minutes.
I don't make laptop purchases often... but it's 100%
On 2014-10-02, Frank Cox thea...@melvilletheatre.com wrote:
Since it has now become amazingly difficult to get a laptop if you're not
planning to use Windows, at least around here, I'm wondering what the rest of
you fine folks do when it comes to purchasing a laptop? Next time this comes
Any Windows 8 laptop requires secure boot does it not? If I'm not mistaken
that's where your issues stem from. Just Micro$oft trying to get even more
control from what I've heard.
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On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 12:58 AM, Frank Cox thea...@melvilletheatre.com
wrote:
Today I found
On Thu, October 2, 2014 10:48 am, Keith Keller wrote:
On 2014-10-02, Frank Cox thea...@melvilletheatre.com wrote:
Since it has now become amazingly difficult to get a laptop if you're
not planning to use Windows, at least around here, I'm wondering what
the rest of you fine folks do when it
On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 10:48 AM, Keith Keller
kkel...@wombat.san-francisco.ca.us wrote:
On 2014-10-02, Frank Cox thea...@melvilletheatre.com wrote:
Since it has now become amazingly difficult to get a laptop if you're not
planning to use Windows, at least around here, I'm wondering what the
On Thu, 02 Oct 2014 09:02:28 -0700 (PDT)
jwyeth.a...@gmail.com wrote:
Any Windows 8 laptop requires secure boot does it not? If I'm not mistaken
that's where your issues stem from.
The second-last step in my little how-to list is set secure boot off. None
of those laptops worked with Centos
Keith Keller wrote:
On 2014-10-02, Frank Cox thea...@melvilletheatre.com wrote:
Since it has now become amazingly difficult to get a laptop if you're
not planning to use Windows, at least around here, I'm wondering what
the rest of you fine folks do when it comes to purchasing a laptop?
Next
Frank Cox wrote:
On Thu, 02 Oct 2014 09:02:28 -0700 (PDT)
jwyeth.a...@gmail.com wrote:
Any Windows 8 laptop requires secure boot does it not? If I'm not
mistaken that's where your issues stem from.
The second-last step in my little how-to list is set secure boot off.
None of those laptops
The second-last step in my little how-to list is set secure boot off.
None of those laptops worked with Centos 6 after that. (I tried Acer,
Asus, Lenovo and HP -- everything in the store from the cheapest one up to
about $800 or so.)
You sure there was no *separate* thing to check to
On Thu, 2 Oct 2014 12:49:18 -0400
m.r...@5-cent.us wrote:
You sure there was no *separate* thing to check to -enable- legacy boot?
If there was, it was exceptionally well hidden. There aren't a whole lot of
options in those bios's, though, and I saw at least four completely different
On Thu, 02 Oct 2014 16:56:57 +
Mark Tinberg wrote:
CentOS 7 booted just fine on those devices and should work with SecureBoot
enabled as well.
Centos 7 booted just fine on the third one that I tried and then I stopped
trying and purchased that one. There was no joy with the two before
On 10/02/2014 06:39 AM, Brian Miller wrote:
On Wed, 2014-10-01 at 22:57 -0600, Frank Cox wrote:
I'm wondering what the rest of you fine folks do when it comes to purchasing a
laptop?
Been using CentOS.available on a series of Dell Precision laptops
(M4300, M4600) since 2007 or so without
On 10/02/2014 01:38 PM, Lamar Owen wrote:
On 10/02/2014 06:39 AM, Brian Miller wrote:
On Wed, 2014-10-01 at 22:57 -0600, Frank Cox wrote:
I'm wondering what the rest of you fine folks do when it comes to
purchasing a laptop?
Been using CentOS.available on a series of Dell Precision laptops
On 10/02/2014 02:11 PM, Mike McCarthy, W1NR wrote:
If you look at the Latitude and Precision offerings from Dell you will
notice that RHEL is offered as an OS. These are specifically designed
to run Linux and therefore, they should all work fine with CentOS as
well.
Very true; Dell has
On 2014-10-02, Valeri Galtsev galt...@kicp.uchicago.edu wrote:
On Thu, October 2, 2014 10:48 am, Keith Keller wrote:
I know this is probably a bit sacrilegious, but recently I have been
tending to get a Mac laptop, and run any linux distributions I need
inside a VM. OS X is (just barely)
On 10/02/2014 12:01 PM, Frank Cox wrote:
Most of the machines (I think all of them, actually) started to boot
Centos 6 to at least some extent. They just failed (lock up, kernel
panic, etc) somewhere along the line after that. And Centos 7 did work
on the third one that I tried.
On the HP
On Thu, October 2, 2014 1:11 pm, Mike McCarthy, W1NR wrote:
On 10/02/2014 01:38 PM, Lamar Owen wrote:
On 10/02/2014 06:39 AM, Brian Miller wrote:
On Wed, 2014-10-01 at 22:57 -0600, Frank Cox wrote:
I'm wondering what the rest of you fine folks do when it comes to
purchasing a laptop?
Been
Valeri Galtsev wrote:
On Thu, October 2, 2014 1:11 pm, Mike McCarthy, W1NR wrote:
On 10/02/2014 01:38 PM, Lamar Owen wrote:
On 10/02/2014 06:39 AM, Brian Miller wrote:
On Wed, 2014-10-01 at 22:57 -0600, Frank Cox wrote:
I'm wondering what the rest of you fine folks do when it comes to
Today I found myself in need of a laptop to run Centos on. And that simple
statement led to an all-day odyssey.
My original plan was to purchase a laptop and install Centos 6 on it. I went
to Staples and tried booting it on every model of laptop that they had in the
store. They all come
On Oct 1, 2014, at 22:57, Frank Cox thea...@melvilletheatre.com wrote:
[...]
Since it has now become amazingly difficult to get a laptop if you're not
planning to use Windows, at least around here, I'm wondering what the rest of
you fine folks do when it comes to purchasing a laptop?
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