> -----Original Message----- > From: CentOS [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of m.roth at 5- > cent.us > Sent: den 2 november 2017 15:30 > To: CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> > Subject: Re: [CentOS] HP laptops with CentOS 7? > > Sorin Srbu wrote: > > > > I'm looking into getting HP laptops for our department running CentOS 7. > > > > Last time I checked this was some five or so years ago, and when I look at > > https://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Laptops, nothing much seems to have > > happened since. > > > > At that time, I had to give up CentOS on laptops, as both Wi-Fi and > > graphics wasn't too well supported with CentOS 5 and 6. > > Is the situation better now with CentOS 7? > > > > We're only allowed to buy the HP, Dell and Apple brands here at this > > university, so what I'm looking at is basically HP. Apple is not of > > interest > because of their pricing. > > I'd prefer Dell, as I said in the post on low-end server, because Dell's > support is decent or better. Also, Dell does know Linux on the server side > - they offer RHEL... and their OMSA DVD boots... into CentOS. <g> > <snip> > And about CentOS on laptops... I've got this circa 2009 HP Netbook. The > ancient Ubuntu netbook-remix was way obsolete, so I needed to update it (I > only use it while traveling, for email and browsing). I just dd'd a CentOS > 6.9 i386 live iso to a flash drive (and I still HATE systemd)... and it > booted. Perfectly. First time. Then I rebooted, and "install" is an > option. Did that, and it worked perfectly. > > Happy camper, here. Seems like I need to get my hands on a recent HP and test this. Thanks for the feedback! -- //Sorin