I have too in the past, Andy.
George Jones
(now at home)
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From: "andy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, April 10, 2000 5:08 PM
Subject: Re: [newbie] I thought this was supposed to beat Windowshandsdown
on stability!!
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David Hugh-Jones wrote:
> Well, I don't dispute that most problems are hardware related. I had
> problems with my video and my graphics card. But that isn't the same as
> saying it is the hardware's fault. Linux should be able to cope with what
> people have on their machines. The hardware is a g
20:04
Subject: RE: [newbie] I thought this was supposed to beat Windowshandsdown
on stability!!
> True, it's in the drivers (most of the time, something I failed to
> point out). One of my machines (p200mmx @250Mhz) which doesn't run Linux
> has a Permedia2 based card. The dri
Hi,
I have a S3 Virge card to without any problem !!
On a mdk 7.
Eric
> -Original Message-
> From: Mike Perry [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, April 10, 2000 10:12 AM
> To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
> Subject: RE: [newbie] I thought this was supposed to b
why do things crash? hm
> -Original Message-
> From: George Jones [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: 10 April 2000 15:02
> To: newbie
> Subject: Re: [newbie] I thought this was supposed to beat
> Windowshandsdownon stability!!
>
>
> paul haine wrote:
> >
> > Funny how when Windows d
H, I hear all the time about people having problems
with setting up hardware, and hardware that has no support
in Linux, but almost NEVER do I hear about Linux instability
on good hardware.
In fact I had an old system consisting of an Oktec Rhino9 board
with a cyrix M2 P200mmx that used to cra
Well here is my two cents on this topic. I have used Windows products from
early Dos to the Windows 2000 NT5.I have to say that for the
many years that I didnt know of anything better I liked Windows, or atleast
dealt wtih its inconsitencies. When I decided to go with Linux, I got rid of
> *laughs*
>
> What motherboard do you have again? You're running an AMD K6/2 -- I'm
> already suspicious (speaking from experience).
I have a similar problem with Linux on my Compaq... I need a startup
switch to stop it from triggering something strange on the motherboard...
> Something is