-----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On
Behalf
Of JohnS Sent: Monday, May 25, 2009 6:35 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] Auto-installing security updates?
Ok, so what would you guys suggest using on a laptop, if CentOS was not
an
option? I read in an earlier post where somebody suggested chosing distro based on the hardware. Suppose this hardware is a Dell Latitude a few
years
old, with no built-in wifi, but rather either a Dlink DFE-680TXD or a
3com
3CRWE154G72.
What do you mean a few years old? I have 2 Dell Latitude LS's that work work fine out of the box with CentOS 4.7 and 5.3. They barely meet the i686 cutoff date.
Not sure how old it is either. I got it from wife's work, as they were to throw it away; "...not fast enough...". I salvaged it, and it seems to work fine with Windows. It wasn't my intention to keep Windows on it though. Anyway, I'd say it's somewhere between 3-5 years old. It's a cheapo plasticky Dell with an Intel P3/1600 and 256-512MB RAM, no built-in wifi, which places it in approx 2005, give or take a few years up or down.