On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 2:58 PM, El Amigo De La Playa <[email protected]> wrote: > I am very satisfied to successfully single-boot SL6.1 (i386, from the > install DVD) on my older "white" MacBook, you know, the first ones from > 2007... > > This laptop is actually my primary machine, a "hand-me-down", and I ran > Ubuntu LTS 10.04 for a year, until I could salvage a 160GB hdd, twice the > size of the original hdd !!! > > It was time for a change... At first, I tried Ubuntu 11.10, with Unity... > While it looks good, it is very uncomfortable to use, very dumbed down... > > I went for KDE, to see how Mageia was doing... Not bad, but I am not a KDE > guy... I have been running Gnome 2.x since 2004... > > Then I remember the RHEL clones... About 2 years ago, I followed the trend > started by Kiki Novak and his excellent book "Linux aux petits oignons", and > used CentOS 5.x for a while... But eventually moved... > > Now I have SL6, and simply cannot believe how little footprint it has, both > in CPU and in RAM... > > So I wanted to thank the SL team and congrats to everyone involved !!!!!
Amigo, you *are* aware that Scientific Linux is a freeware rebundling of a very famous vendor's (R)eally (H)andy (E)xcellent (L)inux. Give credit where it's due. The free rebuild is great for those of us who like to develop in a less fettered way, or who can't afford the commercial licenses, and I send patches and updates and support to both. But do give credit for the *design* of the underlying operating system ot the upstream vendor. They work very hard to do things right.
