On Thu, July 27, 2017 3:02 pm, vychytraly . wrote: > Did you already try current Centos? If yes what was the problem? Why it did > not work? I would first ask kindly: please, do not to post. I would second that. Namely, I had quite a few Dell laptops, all of them that were configured and purchased from Dell as Linux laptops (Dell installs latest Ubintu on them), were easily reinstalled with latest CentOS, and I never had trouble doing that. To OP: Once you do clean fresh installation of latest CentOS 7, and update everything, please, report problems you have encountered. This list has greatest experts: I know, I got help here multiple times. Good luck! Valeri > > On Thu, Jul 27, 2017 at 9:59 PM, Matthew Miller <mattdm at mattdm.org> wrote: > >> On Thu, Jul 27, 2017 at 08:38:14PM +0200, wwp wrote: >> > Say, instead of stable, something not rawhide. But I'll examine all options that do work, so let's forget about "stable". >> In that case — and I freely admit I have some bias here — I highly recommend Fedora. It's not stable in the sense of strict ABI >> compliance, although we try to minimize disruption within the 13-month life of a release, but it is stable in the "does not crash" sense. -- >> Matthew Miller >> <mattdm at fedoraproject.org> >> Fedora Project Leader >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++