On Sat, Jun 6, 2009 at 5:15 PM, Robert Heller<heller at deepsoft.com> wrote: > CentOS, like RHEL is a 'conservitive' distro and won't release unstable > or "cutting edge" versions. Many open source projects release 'beta' > test versions of code, as well as older, more stable versions. Linux > distributions can make a choice: use the older, more stable version and > thus not support hardware that is 'hot off the showroom floor' (this is > what CentOS does). Or be cutting edge and include the latest release > (this is what Ubuntu does). This means that maybe if you install > CentOS on the computer you bought brand new yesterday you might have > trouble getting the X11 to work very will (or with all of the latest > wizbang hardware accel, etc.). You might get it to work if you > installed Ubuntu, or might have other troubles (because the XOrg > release is somewhat beta test... OTOH, if you are not using cutting > edge hardware and/or have no need of cutting edge software, CentOS will > do what you need to do and will do so for like 7 years. Thanks. I wasn't quite sure how that worked. I thought maybe we were just behind the curve a bit and that our Intel Graphics problem would come in a year or so. But then, I kind of hoped that wouldn't be a problem since Red Hat is on so many business machines and a lot of those come standard with Intel Graphics. (Then, again, not too many businesses are worried about making 3D graphics work on their business desktops.) I always use trailing edge hardware so CentOS is a good fit for me. Thanks for writing. -- RonB -- Using CentOS 5.3