any experiences with centos 5/rhel 5 install? machine is rhel 6.1 certified laptop? -- Eero
> -----Original Message----- > From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On > Behalf Of Eero Volotinen > Sent: Friday, February 22, 2013 8:39 AM > To: CentOS mailing list > Subject: [CentOS] Dell Precision M6700 with centos 5? > > any experiences with centos 5/rhel 5 install? machine is rhel 6.1 > certified laptop?Why not install CentOS 6.3 instead? CentOS and RHEL are binary compatible. -- /Sorin
>> any experiences with centos 5/rhel 5 install? machine is rhel 6.1 >> certified laptop? > > Why not install CentOS 6.3 instead? CentOS and RHEL are binary compatible.Yes, but Centos 5 is needed on this project. -- Eero
On 2/22/2013 12:12 AM, Eero Volotinen wrote:>>> any experiences with centos 5/rhel 5 install? machine is rhel 6.1 >>> >>certified laptop? >> > >> >Why not install CentOS 6.3 instead? CentOS and RHEL are binary compatible. > Yes, but Centos 5 is needed on this project.your project uses a laptop as the target ? why would any new project require an OS thats approaching end of service life ? -- john r pierce 37N 122W somewhere on the middle of the left coast
> your project uses a laptop as the target ?yes, its best solution for mobility.> > why would any new project require an OS thats approaching end of service > life ?project is new, but software is old, so it only supports rhel 5/centos 5 without code modifications. -- Eero
2013/2/22 Eero Volotinen <eero.volotinen at iki.fi>:>> your project uses a laptop as the target ? > > yes, its best solution for mobility. > >> >> why would any new project require an OS thats approaching end of service >> life ? > > project is new, but software is old, so it only supports rhel 5/centos > 5 without code modifications.other solution might be installing centos 6 and virtualizing centos 5 on it. -- Eero