On Mon, Apr 26, 2004 at 05:37:12PM -0700, alan wrote: > On Mon, 26 Apr 2004, fredex wrote: > > > > When it died suddenly, I was faced with the task of building a new > > > system. I went to my favorite PC hobby shop (PC Microcenter) and bought > > > a bare bones system. To make a long story short, I had 3 bad power > > > supplies, so the last time it was replaced, I had them load boot the > > > system first. > > > > > > Well, the manager asked me what OS I was running. When I told him LInux, > > > he smiled and called on of his Windoze bigots to watch the system boot. > > > > > > system recognized that the hardware platform had changed (P II to P > > > III), and proceeded to reconfigure itself and boot properly. The only > > > minor problem I has was my swap space since I upgraded from 128 MB to > > > 512 MB. I changed that and the system has been running smoothly ever > > > since. > > > > > > So, go ahead and change the hardware, Linux is not as dependent or > > > stringent as Windoze.... > > > > This is true. And in the OP's case almost certainly a no-brainer, since > > he's staying within the same CPU family. > > > > But,... > > > > I once tried to downgrade from a PIII to a K6-2. Can you say "disaster" ? > > I think that has more to do with the bizzare K6-2 than Linux. > I don't think of K6-2 as bizarre, it' pretty much a pentium clone. I always ascribed the problem to the fact that it had been running an i686 kernel, which surely uses features of a i686 that are not available on an i586. > The only issue I have had has been alignment on partition tables. (Some > bioses seem to see things a little differently.) It has not caused any > problems though. (That I noticed.) > > Because Linux does not have the proprietary clinginess, it does not chain > itself to the hardware in nasty anti-social ways. One of the reasons I run > Linux on all my home systems. > > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list -- ---- Fred Smith -- fredex@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ----------------------------- The Lord detests the way of the wicked but he loves those who pursue righteousness. ----------------------------- Proverbs 15:9 (niv) -----------------------------
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