on 10-14-2008 9:26 AM Sorin Srbu spake the following: > Kai Schaetzl <> scribbled on Tuesday, October 14, 2008 4:31 PM: > >>> Any particular reason why not, if I may ask? >> Because other distributions have better support for brand-new consumer >> hardware. Especially, if you consider the lifetime cycle of CentOS which >> spans to 2014. Look at this not from the viewpoint of your mom, but from >> the computershop that wants to sell lots of PCs to very different people >> (which will expect to see *recent* software) and with (over the years) >> quite differing hardware. > > I see. Good point. However, brand-new hardware support would mean something > like the bleeding edge Fedora (any other distro?). The disadvantage IMHO with > eg Fedora is it's short life-cycle though. What is it, a year or so now? > > FWIW, I've installed CentOS on pretty new stuff, like dual core-mobos with > SATA etc, Broadcom integrated and Intel Desktop Pro/1000 NICs and so on. Works > fine, so I still don't quite see why it'd not be suitable with settling on eg > CentOS, especially if it's set up properly from the beginning by the shop. Did > you maybe have some special hardware in mind? > > Maybe I'm blinded by CentOS running fine on whatever I throw at it so far... > > /S You just need to read this list to see people having hardware troubles, mostly with SATA and/or network, but those are pretty important to a PC. -- MailScanner is like deodorant... You hope everybody uses it, and you notice quickly if they don't!!!! -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 250 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20081014/f1dedde9/attachment-0004.sig>