[CentOS] Centos laptop support

Thu Oct 2 14:12:39 UTC 2014
Valeri Galtsev <galtsev at kicp.uchicago.edu>

On Thu, October 2, 2014 9:02 am, Always Learning wrote:
>
> On Thu, 2014-10-02 at 14:48 +0100, isdtor wrote:
>
>>  A
>> new and recent requirement is to keep the machine free of
>> poetteringware as much as possible.
>
> Too optimistic. As Johnny states: what is in RHEL is, inevitably, in
> Centos.
>
> I'm staying on Centos 6 ...... for as long as possible.
>

And then, finally going away - likely to FreeBDS, NetBSD, OpenBSD (much
less likely), PC-BSD (more likely) - you continue the list yourself...
;-)

My next laptop (I'm eagerly awaiting its arrival) will be FreeBSD
(knocking on wood I didn't screw up with hardware and will not screw up
with system installation...)

Valeri

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Valeri Galtsev
Sr System Administrator
Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics
Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics
University of Chicago
Phone: 773-702-4247
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