[CentOS] CentOS-6 Status updates

[Ljubomir Ljubojevic]

Ron Blizzard wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 2:09 AM, Ljubomir Ljubojevic <office at plnet.rs> wrote:
> 
>> Since Pentium Pro, only old 400 MHz-bus versions of the Pentium M lack
>> PAE support.
> 
> This laptop is a Latitude D400, which I think were made in 2005. It
> definitely doesn't have PAE support. I discovered that when I tried to
> test Red Hat beta 6 on it. It's okay though, it probably won't last
> much longer than CentOS 5 support anyhow. It'll work out fine.
> 
> I'm hoping CentOS doesn't fight me when I try to load the proprietary
> nVidia driver on the desktop. The only way I could do it in Linux Mint
> was to blacklist Nouveau in the Grub boot menu. And Mint/Ubuntu don't
> have an easy way to boot into the command line (when you just want to
> do it for maintenance, like installing a video driver).
> 
ElRepo has kernel modules already compiled: 
http://elrepo.org/tiki/kmod-nvidia so I guess it should be OK. Playing 
around with recompiling nVidia drivers was a real pain in a ....

Ljubomir