Chris W Tucker wrote:
So what you are essentially saying is any OS that you install on any machine, that you have to add drivers to, is not running that OS??
Not in the sense that you can say the OS 'works' on the hardware in question. You might say you can make it work if you add/replace parts.
Ok, I will say this is totally subjective. I will conclude by saying that my Macbook pro is running CentOS 5.4 just fine, with no hardware removal or replacement :) I have an older Toshiba satellite used just for a file server, and it has 5.3 on it. To me, and employees, they work just fine. Almost any OS, M$ Windows included, has needed drivers at some point.
Agreed on the subjective point. If you don't need features, you don't miss the fact that they might not work and some people might use a laptop as a stationary desktop replacement. But for me, the point of a laptop is to be able to resume your work in a matter of seconds anywhere. On the other hand, my use might be atypical in that I keep a Centos freenx session running on a stable server and can reconnect to it from anywhere if I want a full environment and would do that rather than try to duplicate it to run standalone on a laptop. This works the same with the NX client whether it runs on linux, windows, or OSX so I usually just run thunderbird and firefox locally because they are equally OS-agnostic and don't mind network restarts and fire up the NX connection for my Centos work, with a VMware image available if I need it. If I didn't have a stable server or reasonable connectivity everywhere I might need a different approach.