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

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 doesn't work

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 beat Windowshandsdown on

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

2000-04-10 Thread andy
In Windows, I'm using 'Tweaked' drivers I got off the web for my s3 Savage card. This has made a huge difference to the performance of the card. Andy - Original Message - From: George Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: newbie [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 10 April 2000 20:04 Subject: RE: [newbie] I

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

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!! In Windows, I'm using