[CentOS] CentOS-6 Status updates

[Ron Blizzard]

On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 5:24 PM, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com> wrote:

> Do you have something other than an intel wifi chip?

No, not any more. I had a Broadcom card, but an older laptop we gave
away needed a WiFi card, so I invested $12 into an Intel card on eBay
and installed the Broadcom card in the "old" laptop (it worked fine
under Windows). I got the Broadcom working with FWCutter under CentOS,
but its speed was all over the place. The thing I've never been able
to get working in Linux Mint, is the hibernation. If I close the lid,
it locks, unless I "hibernate" it first. But the main thing I don't
like about Ubuntu/Mint is that each upgrade is an "adventure." Of
course, CentOS 6 won't work on my laptop (no PAE) but I've still got
CentOS 5.x for that. We'll see what issues it has on desktop. I'm
hoping that installing the proprietary Nvidia drivers won't be the
hassle they are under Linux Mint. Nouveau is getting better, but it's
still not good enough.

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RonB -- Using CentOS 5.6