At Wed, 20 May 2009 08:14:05 -0500 CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> wrote: > > On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 6:20 AM, Equinox86 <equinox86 at gmail.com> wrote: > > yes centos is not for desktop it's guaranteee, if you don't have much time > > and want a distro updated at last release, if you have much time to spend to > > recompile dependences i advice use slackware, is fast and desktop friendly, > > similar to swiss knife. > > > > but if you have a server, probably best choice is centos. > > Slackware on the Desktop? We have been using CentOS on our Desktops > for several years. It is more complicated than Ubuntu (which I've > never used, but is probably ready to go out of the box, with > Multimedia running, but with a short life) or Fedora (which I have > used, with excellent to bad results, depending on the release), > because the Multimedia stuff needs to be added, etc. But the > stability, security and long life make CentOS a winner, if it will run > on the HW the person has. Probably not the best distro for Laptops, > but many people on this list are using CentOS on their laptops. I'm running CentOS 4.8 on a Thinkpad X31. Works just fine. I am using the Suspend2 kernel from FC4 (2.6.17-1.2142_1.rhfc4.cubbi_swsusp2). Everything works just fine including playing music videos w/mplayer (1.0-0.40.rc1try2.el4.rf). (Just finished this cool Russian video: Dead Stars by Slot, now playing 99Luftballons by Nena.) Yes, it is an older laptop (I would not really want a new one anyway). > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > -- Robert Heller -- 978-544-6933 Deepwoods Software -- Download the Model Railroad System http://www.deepsoft.com/ -- Binaries for Linux and MS-Windows heller at deepsoft.com -- http://www.deepsoft.com/ModelRailroadSystem/