-----Original Message----- From: CentOS [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of m.roth@5- cent.us Sent: den 2 november 2017 15:30 To: CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org Subject: Re: [CentOS] HP laptops with CentOS 7?
Sorin Srbu wrote:
I'm looking into getting HP laptops for our department running CentOS 7.
Last time I checked this was some five or so years ago, and when I look
at
https://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Laptops, nothing much seems to have happened since.
At that time, I had to give up CentOS on laptops, as both Wi-Fi and graphics wasn't too well supported with CentOS 5 and 6. Is the situation better now with CentOS 7?
We're only allowed to buy the HP, Dell and Apple brands here at this university, so what I'm looking at is basically HP. Apple is not of interest > because of their pricing.
I'd prefer Dell, as I said in the post on low-end server, because Dell's support is decent or better. Also, Dell does know Linux on the server side
- they offer RHEL... and their OMSA DVD boots... into CentOS. <g>
<snip> And about CentOS on laptops... I've got this circa 2009 HP Netbook. The ancient Ubuntu netbook-remix was way obsolete, so I needed to update it (I only use it while traveling, for email and browsing). I just dd'd a CentOS 6.9 i386 live iso to a flash drive (and I still HATE systemd)... and it booted. Perfectly. First time. Then I rebooted, and "install" is an option. Did that, and it worked perfectly.
Happy camper, here.
Seems like I need to get my hands on a recent HP and test this. Thanks for the feedback!
-- //Sorin