On Sunday 30 May 2004 21:39, BandiPat wrote:
On Sunday 30 May 2004 10:27 pm, Fred Miller wrote:
On Sunday May 30 2004 7:16 pm, Jake wrote:
Your English isn't bad at all and your meaning is (IMHO) quite right.
I talked to someone the other day who'd I told NOT to buy some odd-ball hardware. They did anyway, and 9.1 won't work with it. He got mad, formated the drive and installed XP. It locks up tighter than a crabs butt about every 30 mins. There's NOTHING perfect. Buy ONLY good solid hardware that keeps to industry specs (example: NO SIS chipsets!!) and most often you won't have any show stoppers.
Fred
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Fred, One part of your statement I agree with and that is to get good hardware, it can make all the difference sometimes. PC hardware is still some of the oldest and worse designed stuff around. Everybody has their own standards, so few follow any rules in building things. The no SIS chipsets though, you are way off base! Apparently you have had a bad incident with them some time ago and decided to dislike SiS, but you are wrong not to recommend them now. I have not ever had such good hardware with VIA or Intel as the SiS chipset boards I'm using & recommending now. They have been far & above better operating setups than any Intel or VIA I've installed Linux on, with fewer bugs too. I've had really good luck out of the AMD chipsets also and Linux.
Lee -- --- KMail v1.6.2 --- SuSE Linux Pro v9.0 --- Registered Linux User #225206 On any other day, that might seem strange... Allow me to weigh in on this conversation! :-)
I can attest to the fact that AMD works really well. I used to have a Toshiba notebook w/AMD k6-2 3D chip on it & that one really rocked w/Mandrake, SuSE, Red Hat, et. al. This new HP box w/Intel 2.66+/- GB chip & etc., will not Mandrake at all, and I have yet to try Red Hat. SuSE is problematic but at least I got v9 to work, & 8.2 Personal, before that. Version9.1 was more than problematic, it was horrendous. Out of three modems --internal & two external-- none worked right, and quit working altogether once I applied the first update. Reinstallation was a total waste of time, as the first installation --pre-updates-- worked for exactly a week & all four subsequent installations saw very little work that had worked on the 1st installation. Hence, a landfill now owns it. As far as I know, my hardware is not unique. I think that Mdk has six HP notebooks listed for compatibility. I checked SuSE's site & was informed my hdwe was compatible. One should be able to believe the list published by SuSE. If one can't, SuSE is in really deep doo-doo. -- ...CH SuSE 9 Works Linux user# 313696 Linux box# 199365