[CentOS] Centos laptop support

[Les Mikesell]

On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 10:48 AM, Keith Keller
<kkeller at wombat.san-francisco.ca.us> wrote:
> On 2014-10-02, Frank Cox <theatre at melvilletheatre.com> wrote:
>>
>> Since it has now become amazingly difficult to get a laptop if you're not planning to use Windows, at least around here, I'm wondering what the rest of you fine folks do when it comes to purchasing a laptop?  Next time this comes up, I'd rather not have to spend all day on something that used to take fifteen minutes.
>
> I know this is probably a bit sacrilegious, but recently I have been
> tending to get a Mac laptop, and run any linux distributions I need
> inside a VM.  OS X is (just barely) tolerable enough to be usable for
> most of my desktop purposes.  (It's not really cost-effective compared
> to non-Apple laptops, unfortunately.)
>

That approach works with windows too.   You take a small hit in
performance as a tradeoff for not having to scramble for drivers all
the time.    But, most of my real work actually runs on headless
servers with NX/freenx giving a fairly efficient remote X desktop from
linux/windows/mac systems with the advantage that you can suspend the
session and pick it up from a different location with everything still
running.    X2go has equivalent features and seems to replace freenx
for CentOS 7.   I just haven't switched because I run 'synergy' to
share the keyboard/mouse on my main desktop and there is some sort of
conflict.

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   Les Mikesell
     lesmikesell at gmail.com