[CentOS] Fedora user moving to CentOS

[Michael A. Peters]

Tim Alberts wrote:
> Greetings, I'm a Fedora user likely going to switch to CentOS in the 
> next few days.  I'm wondering if anyone has some heads up advice for 
> me?  I am very familiar with FC6 and before so I anticipate few problems 
> I haven't already seen (and know were fixed).
> 
> The main reason for the move is so I don't have to re-install so 
> frequently and hopefully not have to deal with so many daily updates.  I 
> would use the 'upstream vendor' (respectfully), but I work under no IT $ 
> budget.
> 

I moved from FC6 to CentOS 5 and almost everything is peachy as can be 
for me.
On my lan "utility" server, everything worked exactly as expected - it 
was the first time ever that I installed a new OS on that machine and 
never had to reboot into the previous install root until I ironed things 
out w/ new install. Everything just worked (except for tdfx driver for 
voodoo3 which I had to patch but that machine is actually headless most 
of the time).

On my laptop (IBM Thinkpad T20) - at the beginning of FC6 - it did not 
properly suspend, and when shutting down, sometimes it would power off 
the drive but fail to power off the laptop itself.

By the end of FC6 - suspend worked perfectly and powering down always 
worked perfectly. CentOS is currently like early FC6 in that respect - 
suspend does not work properly, and when shutting down, it sometimes 
does not power the laptop off.

Those are minor to me though - as I rarely want to use suspend and I can 
manually power it off if the acpi poweroff fails.