[conspire] Supporting newish hardware (was: July 13th CABAL meeting cancelled)

[Rick Moen]

And one last omitted afterthought:

> Ken mentioned he tends towards CentOS 6.  Current relesae is 6.4, which
> is the unbranded rebuild of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Update 4.

RHEL (and thus CentOS) has reasonably current hardware support in the
installer relese du jour (currently RHEL6 Update 4 / CentOS 6.4).
Some days, though, reasonably current just isn't good enough.

E.g., maybe you shlepped down to Fry's and bought an HP Pavillion that
has an _excessively_ hot-off-the-fab integrated video chip, such that
maybe CentOS6 doesn't have a compatible driver, not even (yet) in the
Internet update repo for CentOS 6.4.

I've discussed one way to move forward, in that unlucky scenario:
Install the proprietary ATI driver set, post-CentOS installation.

There's also the other obvious alternative:  Fedora.  Fedora's all about
the cutting edge, for good or for bad, being a development testbed to 
try out engineering to see if it should be adopted into subsequent RHEL 
releases.  

On the plus side, you get the latest software.  On the minus side, you
get the lastest software.  Support lifetimes, you ask?  Damned short.

Pick your poison.