Hi Tony,
I've installed CentOS7 on a Latitude 7470 and can say for a fact that most of the suff just works, while some of it that doesn't (like HDMI, or KMS, nifty little feature I like to have) works with an Elrepo LT or ML kernels. Personally, I'd recommend the LT kernel. I also read in the RHEL 7.3 release notes that I2C support for Gen6 mobile CPUs was introduced. Thus as the time passes, say 6 months from now, one should be able to drop the LT/ML kernel in favor of the stock RHEL/CentOS kernel.
On a side note, the Latitude design/sturdiness impressions were much better than that of a Lenovo X1 Carbon gen4.
Regards, Milos.
On Tue, Nov 22, 2016 at 03:23:08PM +0000, Tony Molloy wrote:
Hi,
I'm recently retired from my university job. I am looking for a laptop to run CentOS 6/7. My university was a traditional Dell site so I've used Latitude laptops for years, currently E6500/E6510.
Anybody got any experience of running CentOS on the newer Dell Latitudes E5000 or E7000. These are not certified according to Redhats' Hardware Guide.
Alternatively Precision Workstations would do. These can be supplied with Ubuntu installed so they run Linux.
Thanks,
Tony