Re: [newbie] I thought this was supposed to beat Windowshandsdown on stability!!

2000-04-10 Thread George Jones IV
I have too in the past, Andy. George Jones (now at home) - Original Message - 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!! &

Re: [newbie] I thought this was supposed to beat Windowshandsdown on stability!!

2000-04-10 Thread Mark Potochnik
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

Re: [newbie] I thought this was supposed to beat Windowshandsdown on stability!!

2000-04-10 Thread andy
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

RE: [newbie] I thought this was supposed to beat Windowshandsdown on stability!!

2000-04-10 Thread Eric MC DECLERCK
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

RE: [newbie] I thought this was supposed to beat Windowshandsdown on stability!!

2000-04-10 Thread Oliver Stieber
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

RE: [newbie] I thought this was supposed to beat Windowshandsdown on stability!!

2000-04-10 Thread Mike Perry
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