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Funny, CentOS 7 was based on Fedora 18-20ish. You'd be hard pressed to find non-exotic hardware that it doesn't support. Also, RHEL is supported a LOT longer[1]
by SEJeff 11y ago
Funny, CentOS 7 was based on Fedora 18-20ish. You'd be hard pressed to find non-exotic hardware that it doesn't support. Also, RHEL is supported a LOT longer[1] than Ubuntu's LTS[2] releases (5 years for Ubuntu vs 11+ for RHEL). As to new software, there are now software collections[3], which render that more or less a moot point.
[1] https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/errata https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/errata
[2] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LTS https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LTS
[3] https://www.softwarecollections.org/en/ https://www.softwarecollections.org/en/
- blinkingled 11y agoYes, the situation is lot better with CentOS 7.x but still the kernel/DRM and Xorg are a lot older and getting those upgraded to something newer is a pain. I guess I should give the latest release a try - initial 7.x release had my Haswell CPU untested, suspend resume not working and there were some packages missing and/or older (FreeRDP/thermald were couple of them). Thanks.
- SEJeff 11y ago7.1, and 7.2 especially on the desktop, are MASSIVELY better (disclaimer: I'm on the RHEL 7.2 private beta program).