> On Mon, 7 Mar 2011, Laurence Hurst wrote: > >> On Thu, Mar 03, 2011 at 03:11:52PM +0000, Digimer wrote: >>> How about the rest of you? What are you looking forward to in CentOS 6 >>> when it is released? >>> >> For me the big wins with CentOS 6 should be SSSD to simplify and >> centralise >> (on the machine) network authentication and (hopefully!) graphics >> drivers >> which work with our hardware out-of-the box. > > Yes, SSSD is of interest to me too. The last version I used was > sufficiently > less adept at matching winbind or nss_ldap in functionality that it wasn't > all > the good for use against Active Directory. I'm assuming nested group > handling > has improved somewhat since I last tried it with CentOS 5, which was the > killer when I last tried. > > It certainly sounds like a massively improved model compared to nss_ldap, > you'd hope for much better resilience and performance. > > I'm not sure I see graphics drivers as a big deal. Have your own local > repo, > add in a suitable package from elrepo, and install it at kickstart time.
Graphics drivers can be a big deal. For some netbook hardware I really need Intel GMA3150 support but AFAIK that's a no go with EL5. I may be wrong but, has anyone got it to work? Simon _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
