I'm planning on installing CentOS (probably) on my HP laptop, and ditching Windows entirely. Sticker says the model is 15-cb024cl. I saw the HP DriveGuard and HP CoolSense utilities, and figured those would be nice to have when I install Linux. Does anyone know if there are any packages out there for these HP utilities. I'd prefer something maintained by HP, perhaps they have a repo? Canon Eos 350d Driver For Windows 8. I'm definitely open to any open-source suggestions, as I don't think it outside the realm of possibility that if there are open-source substitutes, they'll be some that are at least as good as what HP has.

I did find a link regarding DriveGuard, which contains some suggestions for other packages. Does anyone have experience with anything listed? Hello; Allow me to welcome you to the HP forums!

Don't mean to discourage you -- but did you actually read that thread -- especially the part where it mentions that the PPA has not been updated for years and years! Also, not all Linux distros are created equally, and driver and app support vary by OS release and kernel version -- so what you really need to do is see if there is a CentOS forum and ask there. Folks there will be able to give you a better feeling for what is available TODAY, than an old Ubuntu post from long ago. Hello Ung1, I use openSUSE myself (Tumbleweed) and hpdrivegard and of course hplip for printers continue to live in their standard open-source repo. That means that they get periodically recompiled and tested by the OpenSUSE Build Service.

I don't know about drivegard (because I use solid-state), but hplip is an awesome tool whose features are failing one-by-one, which makes me think that it hasn't received attention for some time. (Feature fail includes automatic setup of scanner, and automatic detection of networked printers - instead check IP address on router and enter that manually to setup an HP printer. Manual Utilizare Canon Mp160 more. Hp Design Software Project Runway. ) My recent experience has been that openSUSE works fine on a year-old HP Envy laptop with 'optimus' configuration (discrete nvidia graphics held hostage by an integrated Intel GPU), but that the two solutions for linux, nvidia-prime and bumblebee, were both broken on the new version of ubuntu (18.04 LTS) and its derivatives as of mid-May.

They may have the kinks wrked out by now. I don't know how CentOS handles optimus, but I seem to recall that the guy who adapted nvidia-prime for us openSUSE users is a Fedora dev who did the same for his OS of choice, which is at least related. With Radeon/Vega, AMD is now supporting deveelopment of an open-source driver amdgpu, so that should work fine, and if you need to use GPU-acclerated rendering with the Cycles engine in Blender, CentOS is one of the few distros that can use amdgpupro. Latest CentOS 7 with UEFI boot (64-bit only) works well on latest HP laptop and desktop. DriveGuard is not needed on laptop with solid-state MMC card. I guess that CoolSense is not needed on modern low-power laptops with no fan.