Re: [CentOS] OT: laptop recommendations for CentOS6

2013-08-17 Thread Johan Vermeulen
hello, over the past year, I bought a lot of laptops and I insist on running Centos on all of them. * the best is Dell dell-vostro3450, wich is 95 % compatible. The other 5% being some fn function keys but I think it's not for sale any more. * At the moment I use an Acer Aspire E1-571.

Re: [CentOS] OT: laptop recommendations for CentOS6

2013-08-17 Thread Rob Kampen
On 08/17/2013 08:40 PM, Johan Vermeulen wrote: hello, over the past year, I bought a lot of laptops and I insist on running Centos on all of them. snip /snip * the worst are Asus X55-A and Dell Vostro 3460 that have Atheros network cards. * I never tried Ati Radeon on Centos because of bad

Re: [CentOS] OT: laptop recommendations for CentOS6

2013-08-17 Thread Fabrizio Di Carlo
I have Asus U32U with 8GBs of RAM and 320GBs of HD and everything works fine (also the HDMI out) except some keys like volume up/down but I think it's just a issue about config. On Sat, Aug 17, 2013 at 12:31 PM, Rob Kampen rkam...@kampensonline.comwrote: On 08/17/2013 08:40 PM, Johan Vermeulen

Re: [CentOS] OT: laptop recommendations for CentOS6

2013-08-17 Thread Eliezer Croitoru
Hey there, CentOS is using what kernel? 2.x?? which was not designed to work with newer hardware but Fedora works fine with it. If you need specific functions like EMAIL WEB etc take a look at the latest stable Fedora and go back one version and test it. I am using Fedora(18) on a very old MSI (5

Re: [CentOS] OT: laptop recommendations for CentOS6

2013-08-17 Thread Ljubomir Ljubojevic
On 08/17/2013 02:03 PM, Eliezer Croitoru wrote: Hey there, CentOS is using what kernel? 2.x?? which was not designed to work with newer hardware but Fedora works fine with it. If you need specific functions like EMAIL WEB etc take a look at the latest stable Fedora and go back one version

Re: [CentOS] OT: laptop recommendations for CentOS6

2013-08-17 Thread Ljubomir Ljubojevic
On 08/16/2013 06:06 PM, carlopmart wrote: Hi all, First of all, sorry for the OT. I need to buy a new laptop for my work. My prerequisites are: - RAM: 6/8 GiB (preferably 8 GiB) - Processor: Core i7 - Disk: up to 500 GiB for SATA, 128 GiB for SSD. - Graphics card: Intel HD (I really

Re: [CentOS] OT: laptop recommendations for CentOS6

2013-08-17 Thread Eliezer Croitoru
On 08/17/2013 04:08 PM, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: I recently bought Samsung NP350E5x-A04HR that is all Intel with with traditional Fn function (some manufacturers reverse the Fn action so you get F1-F12 WITH Fn, and play/pause/wireless/etc are used WITHOUT Fn key) with current problem that

Re: [CentOS] OT: laptop recommendations for CentOS6

2013-08-17 Thread Ljubomir Ljubojevic
On 08/17/2013 03:23 PM, Eliezer Croitoru wrote: On 08/17/2013 04:08 PM, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: I recently bought Samsung NP350E5x-A04HR that is all Intel with with traditional Fn function (some manufacturers reverse the Fn action so you get F1-F12 WITH Fn, and play/pause/wireless/etc are

Re: [CentOS] OT: laptop recommendations for CentOS6

2013-08-17 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby
On 2013-08-16 19:06, carlopmart wrote: Hi all, First of all, sorry for the OT. I need to buy a new laptop for my work. My prerequisites are: - RAM: 6/8 GiB (preferably 8 GiB) - Processor: Core i7 - Disk: up to 500 GiB for SATA, 128 GiB for SSD. - Graphics card: Intel HD (I really hate

Re: [CentOS] OT: laptop recommendations for CentOS6

2013-08-17 Thread Eliezer Croitoru
On 08/17/2013 05:14 PM, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: On 08/17/2013 03:23 PM, Eliezer Croitoru wrote: On 08/17/2013 04:08 PM, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: I recently bought Samsung NP350E5x-A04HR that is all Intel with with traditional Fn function (some manufacturers reverse the Fn action so you

Re: [CentOS] OT: laptop recommendations for CentOS6

2013-08-17 Thread wwp
Hello Ljubomir, On Sat, 17 Aug 2013 16:14:11 +0200 Ljubomir Ljubojevic cen...@plnet.rs wrote: On 08/17/2013 03:23 PM, Eliezer Croitoru wrote: On 08/17/2013 04:08 PM, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: I recently bought Samsung NP350E5x-A04HR that is all Intel with with traditional Fn function

Re: [CentOS] OT: laptop recommendations for CentOS6

2013-08-17 Thread Eero Volotinen
levono thinkpad w530 On Aug 16, 2013 7:07 PM, carlopmart carlopm...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, First of all, sorry for the OT. I need to buy a new laptop for my work. My prerequisites are: - RAM: 6/8 GiB (preferably 8 GiB) - Processor: Core i7 - Disk: up to 500 GiB for SATA, 128 GiB for

Re: [CentOS] OT: laptop recommendations for CentOS6

2013-08-17 Thread carlopmart
On 17/08/13 12:03, Eliezer Croitoru wrote: Hey there, CentOS is using what kernel? 2.x?? which was not designed to work with newer hardware but Fedora works fine with it. If you need specific functions like EMAIL WEB etc take a look at the latest stable Fedora and go back one version and

Re: [CentOS] OT: laptop recommendations for CentOS6

2013-08-17 Thread carlopmart
On 17/08/13 14:14, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: On 08/17/2013 03:23 PM, Eliezer Croitoru wrote: On 08/17/2013 04:08 PM, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: I recently bought Samsung NP350E5x-A04HR that is all Intel with with traditional Fn function (some manufacturers reverse the Fn action so you get

Re: [CentOS] OT: laptop recommendations for CentOS6

2013-08-17 Thread carlopmart
On 17/08/13 15:38, wwp wrote: Hello Ljubomir, On Sat, 17 Aug 2013 16:14:11 +0200 Ljubomir Ljubojevic cen...@plnet.rs wrote: On 08/17/2013 03:23 PM, Eliezer Croitoru wrote: On 08/17/2013 04:08 PM, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: I recently bought Samsung NP350E5x-A04HR that is all Intel with

Re: [CentOS] OT: laptop recommendations for CentOS6

2013-08-17 Thread Andrew Wyatt
On Sat, Aug 17, 2013 at 11:37 AM, carlopmart carlopm...@gmail.com wrote: On 17/08/13 12:03, Eliezer Croitoru wrote: Hey there, CentOS is using what kernel? 2.x?? which was not designed to work with newer hardware but Fedora works fine with it. If you need specific functions like

Re: [CentOS] OT: laptop recommendations for CentOS6

2013-08-17 Thread Ljubomir Ljubojevic
On 08/17/2013 06:42 PM, Andrew Wyatt wrote: On Sat, Aug 17, 2013 at 11:37 AM, carlopmart carlopm...@gmail.com wrote: On 17/08/13 12:03, Eliezer Croitoru wrote: Hey there, CentOS is using what kernel? 2.x?? which was not designed to work with newer hardware but Fedora works fine with it.

Re: [CentOS] OT: laptop recommendations for CentOS6

2013-08-17 Thread wwp
Hello carlopmart, On Sat, 17 Aug 2013 16:40:42 + carlopmart carlopm...@gmail.com wrote: On 17/08/13 15:38, wwp wrote: [snip] * VMWare says it supports it:

[CentOS] OT: laptop recommendations for CentOS6

2013-08-16 Thread carlopmart
Hi all, First of all, sorry for the OT. I need to buy a new laptop for my work. My prerequisites are: - RAM: 6/8 GiB (preferably 8 GiB) - Processor: Core i7 - Disk: up to 500 GiB for SATA, 128 GiB for SSD. - Graphics card: Intel HD (I really hate to use Nvidia or ATI Radeon graphics cards).