Installing CentOS 5.3 on a Netbook - A Cautionary Tale (Distrowatch Weekly #312)

Posted by caitlyn on Jul 20, 2009 11:23 AM EDT
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Last month Radu-Cristian Fotescu, who writes the Planète Béranger blog, posted about running CentOS 5.3 on the desktop, describing his experiences as "simple pleasures". Mr. Fotescu has a well earned reputation for negativity, particularly when it comes to Linux distributions. He has been positively effusive about CentOS 5.3, going so far as to create his own repository of additional or updated desktop software for CentOS and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.x, and sharing it with the community. As a result I began toying with the idea of running CentOS on my Sylvania g Netbook Meso.

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With apologies to Béranger caitlyn 2 1,097 Jul 20, 2009 10:11 PM

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