Tim <ignored_mailbox <at> yahoo.com.au> writes:
On Sat, 2008-06-14 at 13:16 -0700, Mike Bird wrote:
> According to DistroWatch, CentOS is only up to kernel 2.6.18
> which rules it out for newer desktops and laptops
Confirmed. CentOS 5.1 has 2.6.18-53.1.21 as the most recent update.
RHEL (and thus also CentOS) usually gets support for newer hardware backported
in the point releases. So 5.1 already supports newer hardware than a stock
2.6.18 kernel did, and 5.2 (which will be out in a few days, see
http://misterd77.blogspot.com/2008/06/centos-52-release-update.html - the
corresponding RHEL has already been out for a few weeks) will support even more
new hardware (see
http://www.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/5.2/html/Releas...
).
Kevin Kofler