Olaf Mueller wrote: > Yes, this could be a way. Initially I have chosen CentOS 5 for my > admittedly very old but also nice notebook toshiba tecra 8000 cause of > the long term support that CentOS has. This notebook has seen all the > fedora core versions from 1 to 6. And after each new upgrade something > get wrong, usually the isa sound card stops the work. My hope was to > install CentOS once and getting all the things run, yum will do the > rest and I get peace for a few years. But if I had to build my own > kernel, I will get no peace. > > I am completely happy with CentOS 5 on my server. It would be great to > have such a nice system also on my notebook. > > > regards > Olaf Is there a reason you do not want to run one of the Fedora Cores that worked (other than support)? I ran Fedora Core 1 on a server until just very recently. The only reason I upgraded the OS was because I was also upgrading the hardware; otherwise, I would have just left what was working alone. If your notebook works fine with one of the older kernels, just run that one. As long as you are not running a web server or something that will be constantly scanned by the script kiddies, you should not have any problems. Patrick