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

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DistroWatch ; By Caitlyn Martin and Chris Smart 		Mail this story
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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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caitlyn ·
I misspelled Radu-Cristian -- there is no "h". I corrected this on DWW but if one of the editors here can correct it as well I would really appreciate it.

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