Thing is though Ben, the machine I had the most trouble with was manufactured by a now merged PC company called Compaq. With the original factory installation the machine wouldn't run more than an hour or so without crashing or blue screening. You're probably quite right about a lot of systems not being on the HCL but there were at least two AMD K6 specific fixes in Windows 9x and neither quite did the trick. In fact I don't remember ever seeing a stable AMD K6 based system. On the plus side, Linux is running on most of them! ;^)
-Alex ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Greater NH Linux User Group" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, January 15, 2003 12:00 PM Subject: Re: Wireless weirdness (was: NT Stuff) On Wed, 15 Jan 2003, at 11:21am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > If I had a nickel for every hour I've spent chasing windows problem... ;^( Amen to that. > P.S. My favorite (not) windows bugs are the ones associated with the AMD > K6 processors. You end up with a very unstable machine but when you put > Linux or any of the NT variants on these systems magically everything > works. Keep in mind that the HCL (Hardware Compatibility List) for Microsoft Windows is a lot shorter than the pool of available hardware. If it is not on the HCL, Microsoft makes no promises as to whether Windows will work. In the case of many K6 motherboards I've used, they were not on the HCL, and for a good reason -- Windows crashed constantly on them. My point here is not to defend Windows, but rather, to promote Linux: Many people point to the fact that vendors "always" provide Windows drivers, but not always Linux drivers. However, once you start installing third-party drivers, what stability Windows has goes right down the toilet. If you instead confine yourself to the HCL (like Microsoft tells you to), the hardware support picture becomes much more balanced. -- Ben Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | The opinions expressed in this message are those of the author and do not | | necessarily represent the views or policy of any other person, entity or | | organization. All information is provided without warranty of any kind. | _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
