Chris W Tucker wrote:
>>> So what you are essentially saying is any OS that you install on any
>>> machine, that you have to add drivers to, is not running that OS??
>> Not in the sense that you can say the OS 'works' on the hardware in question.
>> You might say you can make it work if you add/replace parts.
>>
>
> Ok, I will say this is totally subjective. I will conclude by saying that
> my Macbook pro is running CentOS 5.4 just fine, with no hardware removal
> or replacement :) I have an older Toshiba satellite used just for a
> file server, and it has 5.3 on it. To me, and employees, they work just
> fine. Almost any OS, M$ Windows included, has needed drivers at some
> point.
Agreed on the subjective point. If you don't need features, you don't miss the
fact that they might not work and some people might use a laptop as a stationary
desktop replacement. But for me, the point of a laptop is to be able to resume
your work in a matter of seconds anywhere. On the other hand, my use might be
atypical in that I keep a Centos freenx session running on a stable server and
can reconnect to it from anywhere if I want a full environment and would do that
rather than try to duplicate it to run standalone on a laptop. This works the
same with the NX client whether it runs on linux, windows, or OSX so I usually
just run thunderbird and firefox locally because they are equally OS-agnostic
and don't mind network restarts and fire up the NX connection for my Centos
work, with a VMware image available if I need it. If I didn't have a stable
server or reasonable connectivity everywhere I might need a different approach.
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Les Mikesell
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