On 09/13/2015 09:25 PM, Keith Keller wrote: > On 2015-09-14, Hal Wigoda wrote: >> Use Oracles VM VirtualBox. > > Well, I explicitly don't want to do that, since it uses even more > resources than OS X by itself. Having linux run on the bare metal > without OS X should be much more efficient. > >> On Sun, Sep 13, 2015 at 9:33 PM, Keith Keller wrote: >>> Then I got to the point of configuring wifi, and of course being a MBP, >>> it has a proprietary Broadcom interface. I followed the instructions on >>> the wiki (https://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Laptops/Wireless/Broadcom), but >>> had some trouble with it coming back up after a sleep. That plus some >>> other issues (it ran hot just running a browser, for example) are making >>> me question whether this is a good idea. > > As sometimes happens, I wrote too soon. I think the wifi issue may have > been a misconfiguration on my part, and so far Firefox has been fine. > It could have been a transient issue that I unintentionally resolved. > > I was really surprised to see that streaming video and audio worked > without having to do anything. And even KDE has not been too much of a > dog so far, though I'm still thinking to install something like fluxbox > or blackbox. I actually haven't had a linux desktop in a long time so > I'm very much out of practice. > > So far, after the first hiccups, CentOS 7 has been much faster on the > old MBP than OS X is. I'm optimistic that I can find a use for it, even > if it's just having a laptop I can use if my family wants the new MBP. > > --keith > > I think xfce is part of EPEL .. I use MATE from EPEL and there is also Cinnamon there. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 198 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20150914/dd30a916/attachment-0005.sig>