On Sat, Jun 6, 2009 at 5:15 PM, Robert Hellerheller@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.