[CentOS] Intel Graphics support in future releases

[Ron Blizzard]

On Sat, Jun 6, 2009 at 5:15 PM, Robert Heller<heller at deepsoft.com> 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