On Thu, April 28, 2016 1:40 am, Andreas Benzler wrote: > Hello Brain, > > for such new software you go with Centos 7. The older version is more > rocket stable, > but in case you use such new laptop the newer one is the better / best > choice. > > You need to upgrade the kernel, there is no way out. Centos deliver > „only“ > 2.6 or 3.10. > > http://elrepo.org/tiki/kernel-lt or http://elrepo.org/tiki/kernel-ml > can fix this. > > - Totem and multimedia isn’t work fully. Gstreamer is cut down. > > Yesterday I installed my laptop with new hardware and most of it fully > work, > but it was hard to go. Why ? Take a look at my private repo > http://centos.cms4all.org/centos/7/ > What it does? Update Kernel, Drivers, Mesa , GStreamer, Gutenprint > (printers). I’m > liite bit of centos 7 and in this parts I’m on my own. > > Don’t flame me - Ubuntu LTS 16.04 is on the way and this should work for > you. Ubuntu is clone of Debian. Don't flame me, I'm just mentioning. Valeri > > The new nvidia series 9 will come with kernel 4.5 as i know (open source > part) > > Greatings > > Andy > >> Am 28.04.2016 um 05:47 schrieb Valeri Galtsev >> <galtsev at kicp.uchicago.edu>: >> >> >> On Wed, April 27, 2016 10:07 pm, Brian Bernard wrote: >>> Oh, I wouldn't flame you. >>> >>> Hmm, I didn't think of using a virtual machine. The Lenovo has a NVidia >>> 960MX, so I wonder if it would fully work under a virtual machine. >> >> Probably not. Normally virtual machine does not have that level of >> possession of hardware. At least Sun-Oracle Virtual Box doesn't. >> Somebody >> may correct me if I'm wrong here. If I were to do it, I would choose as >> host system the system your software requiring OpenGL is available for. >> And add other systems you need in virtual machines. Laptops, though >> powerful these days, still not the best choice for virtual machines >> IMHO. >> >> Valeri >> >>> >>> The reason why I ask is that I do systems adminstration with >>> meteorological >>> software that requires OpenGL 2.0 and at least 2GB of video ram. >>> >>> Thank you for your reply, Mike. >>> >>> Brian Bernard >>> On Apr 27, 2016 10:43 PM, "Mike Mohr" <akihana at gmail.com> wrote: >>>> >>>> Don't flame me, but I really recommend using Ubuntu on laptops. If you >>>> really want CentOS, you should go with version 7. Many new laptops >>>> won't >>>> work well with that either though. >>>> >>>> CentOS 6 only works well these days on older hardware or on virtual >>>> machines. >>>> On Apr 27, 2016 7:27 PM, "Brian Bernard" >>>> <brian.brianbernard at gmail.com> >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>> Hi all, >>>> >>>> I'm looking at buying a Lenovo Y700 Notebook, and wondering if it >>>> would >>>> work with CentOS 6. Or if anyone has experience with using it under >>>> CentOS >>>> 6. I assume that the WiFi could be an issue as it uses an Intel 8260 >>>> card. >>>> I want to make the correct decision. >>>> >>>> Thank you, >>>> >>>> Brian Bernard >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> CentOS mailing list >>>> CentOS at centos.org >>>> https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> CentOS mailing list >>>> CentOS at centos.org >>>> https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >>> _______________________________________________ >>> CentOS mailing list >>> CentOS at centos.org >>> https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >>> >> >> >> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ >> Valeri Galtsev >> Sr System Administrator >> Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics >> Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics >> University of Chicago >> Phone: 773-702-4247 >> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ >> _______________________________________________ >> CentOS mailing list >> CentOS at centos.org <mailto:CentOS at centos.org> >> https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >> <https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos> > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Valeri Galtsev Sr System Administrator Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics University of Chicago Phone: 773-702-4247 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++