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. 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.
