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

Fri Jul 28 10:44:33 UTC 2017
Johnny Hughes <johnny at centos.org>

On 07/28/2017 05:40 AM, Johnny Hughes wrote:
> On 07/27/2017 12:25 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.
>>
>>
> 
> I have an experimental 4.9.x kernel stream for x86_64.  Let me see if I
> can create a live-dvd that boots with that kernel and installs.

4.9 kernel tree for CentOS-7 that is.

It lives here:

http://mirror.centos.org/altarch/7/experimental/x86_64/

(currently pushing a 4.9.39 kernel there)

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