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You wouldn't. CentOS is aimed at servers which are maintained by sysadmins who know RHEL well (e.g. RHEL certified), or who just want really friggin' stable sh

You wouldn't. CentOS is aimed at servers which are maintained by sysadmins who know RHEL well (e.g. RHEL certified), or who just want really friggin' stable shit. A developer usually wants someting that has a tradeoff closer to "newer" on the "stability vs upgrades" tradeoff. For a dev laptop, absolutely use fedora over centos.

Sir_Substance 9y ago
>or who just want really friggin' stable shit. Critically for potential desktop users, this means you can't necessarily expect things like touchpad drivers to work. Hardware support, especially consumer hardware support, can take years to trickle into centos releases. That stability may well be deeply desirable in a server that has to undergo security audits every so often, but it won't help you install it on a laptop.
- bonzini 9y ago
  > consumer hardware support, can take years to trickle into centos releases. Not necessarily, after all non-technical Red Hat employees run RHEL on bog standard Lenovo ThinkPads and model choice includes pretty recent hardware (and even some models with Optimus, lately). Technical employees mostly run Fedora, though some use RHEL and others are die hard Debian or Gentoo fans.
- justinclift 9y ago
  Many ALPS touchpads (very common) should work well in CentOS 7 these days. Back when I worked at Red Hat, making that happen was a side project that had good results. Main due to my using a Dell laptop with an ALPS touchpad at the time, and getting fed up with the crappy support it originally presented. ;)
rrauenza 9y ago
I haven't used Fedora in years -- how does Fedora make it easier for people who don't know RHEL well, vs. CentOS? (I had expected the sysadmin experience to be very similar.)
SEJeff 9y ago
I'm running a RHEL 7.3 desktop to type this comment on with 3 30" Dell monitors. I'll have you know that CentOS 7 and RHEL7 make a fantastic desktop.

Sir_Substance 9y ago

>or who just want really friggin' stable shit. Critically for potential desktop users, this means you can't necessarily expect things like touchpad drivers to work. Hardware support, especially consumer hardware support, can take years to trickle into centos releases. That stability may well be deeply desirable in a server that has to undergo security audits every so often, but it won't help you install it on a laptop.

bonzini 9y ago
> consumer hardware support, can take years to trickle into centos releases. Not necessarily, after all non-technical Red Hat employees run RHEL on bog standard Lenovo ThinkPads and model choice includes pretty recent hardware (and even some models with Optimus, lately). Technical employees mostly run Fedora, though some use RHEL and others are die hard Debian or Gentoo fans.
justinclift 9y ago
Many ALPS touchpads (very common) should work well in CentOS 7 these days. Back when I worked at Red Hat, making that happen was a side project that had good results. Main due to my using a Dell laptop with an ALPS touchpad at the time, and getting fed up with the crappy support it originally presented. ;)

rrauenza 9y ago

I haven't used Fedora in years -- how does Fedora make it easier for people who don't know RHEL well, vs. CentOS? (I had expected the sysadmin experience to be very similar.)

SEJeff 9y ago

I'm running a RHEL 7.3 desktop to type this comment on with 3 30" Dell monitors. I'll have you know that CentOS 7 and RHEL7 make a fantastic desktop.