Re: [CentOS] In the press, once again

2010-09-24 Thread Chris W Tucker
* Timo Schoeler (timo.schoe...@riscworks.net) wrote: May be a little bit off topic, but this gave me hard laugh: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/09/24/sysadmin_file_tools/ Windows admins use a virtualized CentOS machine to copy files because their own tools are not able to handle copying

Re: [CentOS] Laptop for CentOS-5

2010-01-09 Thread Chris W Tucker
Assuming you wanted an answer... For one thing the powerbooks got 'close lid, sleep, open lid wake up, grab a fresh network connection and continue' right about a decade ago and the odds of that working with any PC hardware/OS combination even today are pretty dismal and it makes a laptop

Re: [CentOS] Laptop for CentOS-5

2010-01-09 Thread Chris W Tucker
I also have a Macbook Pro running CentOS just fine as well. However Fedora is a lot farther ahead driver wise and application wise. It also took longer to configure CentOS to a good state. I'm not sure I'd call it running CentOS if you had to add drivers/components/firmware to make it

Re: [CentOS] Laptop for CentOS-5

2010-01-09 Thread Chris W Tucker
That's your opinion. I'm perfectly happy running CentOS on my Dell XPS M1330, and furthermore pretty much everything works fine straight out of the box: Wait, that cannot be so. Another happy user? :) ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] Laptop for CentOS-5

2010-01-09 Thread Chris W Tucker
So what you are essentially saying is any OS that you install on any machine, that you have to add drivers to, is not running that OS?? Not in the sense that you can say the OS 'works' on the hardware in question. You might say you can make it work if you add/replace parts. Ok, I will say