[CentOS] What RH-like on a Dell XPS 15 (9590)?

Thu Jul 27 21:01:18 UTC 2017
Mike McCarthy, W1NR <sysop at w1nr.net>

I would go with Fedora or OpenSUSE latest if you want RH like on that
hardware. There is nothing that unstable about them other than losing
updates and maintenance after 2 years and having to upgrade.

Another choice is to run Virtualbox on the Windows that shipped with the
laptop and run a CentOS 7 virtual guest.

If you REALLY need RHEL (CentOS) running on the hardware I would return
the XPS and get a Lattitude or Precision laptop. They have much better
Linux support as they tend to be more stability oriented rather than
latest and greatest hardware.

Mike

On 07/27/2017 01:25 PM, wwp wrote:
> Hello there,
>
>
> I've just got a Dell XPS 15 (9590) at work and need to set up a stable
> GNU/Linux system on it. I thought of CentOS7, but.. obviously its
> kernel can't run on this hardware.
>
> What would you recommend? Waiting for CentOS8 is not an option unless
> it's a question of few weeks. Are there respins of the CentOS7 DVDs w/
> more top-recent kernels? I'm know of Fedora 26 or course, and not
> willing to switch to Ubuntu 16.10 at all.
>
>
> Regards,
>
>
>
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