I would go with Fedora or OpenSUSE latest if you want RH like on that hardware. There is nothing that unstable about them other than losing updates and maintenance after 2 years and having to upgrade.
Another choice is to run Virtualbox on the Windows that shipped with the laptop and run a CentOS 7 virtual guest.
If you REALLY need RHEL (CentOS) running on the hardware I would return the XPS and get a Lattitude or Precision laptop. They have much better Linux support as they tend to be more stability oriented rather than latest and greatest hardware.
Mike
On 07/27/2017 01:25 PM, wwp wrote:
Hello there,
I've just got a Dell XPS 15 (9590) at work and need to set up a stable GNU/Linux system on it. I thought of CentOS7, but.. obviously its kernel can't run on this hardware.
What would you recommend? Waiting for CentOS8 is not an option unless it's a question of few weeks. Are there respins of the CentOS7 DVDs w/ more top-recent kernels? I'm know of Fedora 26 or course, and not willing to switch to Ubuntu 16.10 at all.
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