On 08/17/2013 06:42 PM, Andrew Wyatt wrote:
On Sat, Aug 17, 2013 at 11:37 AM, carlopmart carlopmart@gmail.com wrote:
On 17/08/13 12:03, Eliezer Croitoru wrote:
Hey there,
CentOS is using what kernel? 2.x?? which was not designed to work with newer hardware but Fedora works fine with it. If you need specific functions like EMAIL WEB etc take a look at the latest stable Fedora and go back one version and test it. I am using Fedora(18) on a very old MSI (5 years or more) and it works nice but not as fast as newer basic desktop corei3. I assume that Fedora will work on basic laptop chipsets. they do have compatibly list: http://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/HardwareList http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/HCL/Machines/Laptops
if you can know what is the chipset on each card like atheros broadcom intel nvidia ati etc you can make sure that the OS will work with it. my desktop has a ATI card so it's suppose to be compatible with Fedora.
Did you considered other OS for the machine?
Fedora is not an option for me, due to:
- It is a bleeding-edge distro (stability is most important)
- VMware Workstation doesn't works out of the box
- EOL for every release is too short
If I can't install CentOS, the other only OS option is Debian.
There are a few repos out there with kernel 3.4.x for CentOS 6 including the CentOS Xen-c6 repo (http://dev.centos.org/centos/6/xen-c6/x86_64/RPMS/) and my personal repo at SF (http://sourceforge.net/projects/fuduntu-el/).
Kernel 3.4 may give you the support you need, and also keep compatibility with VMWare Workstation. Worth evaluating before giving up.
ElRepo has 3.10 kernels.