Tim Alberts wrote: > Greetings, I'm a Fedora user likely going to switch to CentOS in the > next few days. I'm wondering if anyone has some heads up advice for > me? I am very familiar with FC6 and before so I anticipate few problems > I haven't already seen (and know were fixed). > > The main reason for the move is so I don't have to re-install so > frequently and hopefully not have to deal with so many daily updates. I > would use the 'upstream vendor' (respectfully), but I work under no IT $ > budget. > I moved from FC6 to CentOS 5 and almost everything is peachy as can be for me. On my lan "utility" server, everything worked exactly as expected - it was the first time ever that I installed a new OS on that machine and never had to reboot into the previous install root until I ironed things out w/ new install. Everything just worked (except for tdfx driver for voodoo3 which I had to patch but that machine is actually headless most of the time). On my laptop (IBM Thinkpad T20) - at the beginning of FC6 - it did not properly suspend, and when shutting down, sometimes it would power off the drive but fail to power off the laptop itself. By the end of FC6 - suspend worked perfectly and powering down always worked perfectly. CentOS is currently like early FC6 in that respect - suspend does not work properly, and when shutting down, it sometimes does not power the laptop off. Those are minor to me though - as I rarely want to use suspend and I can manually power it off if the acpi poweroff fails.