[96768] in RedHat Linux List
Re: mobo and cpu upgrade...sweet linux
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher G. Wilson)
Thu Oct 29 09:02:23 1998
From: cgwilson@redjack.ninds.nih.gov (Christopher G. Wilson)
To: redhat-list@redhat.com
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1998 10:01:30 -0500 (EST)
In-Reply-To: <001e01be0308$1706dce0$0a00000a@whopper.netrslts.com> from "Jose M. Sanchez" at Oct 29, 98 01:48:00 am
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Greetings,
> Not meaning to waste further bandwidth... but you hit (or avoided) those
> dreaded issues right on the head...
> Namely PNP and low level drivers.... by "turning them off" you effectively
> circumvented the problem(s)... but at the same time it's these very items
> which is supposed, (pardon my gaffaw) to improve the reliability of
> Winblows...
Of course. PnP, as you've already mentioned in the past, is NOT a mature
technology. I just want a good stable box to get my work or fun done.
I'm willing to sacrifice the extra 3-15% performance boost that the
"correct" low level drivers would buy me in order to keep the machine working
24/7.
> Winblows is supposed to "recover" from misconfigurations, something it
> cannot do with these features turned off...
By Windows you mean 95/98 in this case. My limited personal experience is
that Win 95/98 ain't so good at recovering from misconfigurations and as
long as I can _make_ the machine do what I know it should do by circumventing
this so called "smart" software I'm willing to do that. It's my _personal_
computer after all. ;-)
> Sooo back to the real OS... I hope that PNP and system board handling never
> becomes an issue with Linux... Given the flexibility of this OS, I doubt it
> will, and maybe Mickeysoft has yet another thing to learn from the
> Penguin...
>
> -JMS
Here here!
Chris
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