Re: Defective Red Hat Distribution poorly represents Linux

From: Mohammad A. Haque (mhaque@haque.net)
Date: Mon Nov 20 2000 - 13:44:39 EST


Same experince here....

Boxes ran perfectly fine with Windows (95/98/NT) but barfed with linux.
RAM replacement fixed it. Now whenever I see a signal 11 with gcc memory
is the first thing I go after.

On Mon, 20 Nov 2000, John Jasen wrote:

> On Mon, 20 Nov 2000, Charles Turner, Ph.D. wrote:
> On this note, I recall a time that I 'appropriated' a workstation for
> linux.
>
> It was pulled out of the student labs, where it had worked for 3 months
> running NT 4.0, but the RH install kept on crashing out.
>
> I could even reinstall NT 4.0.
>
> *shrug*
>
> Eventually traced it down to memory, and had our hardware hacks replace
> it.
>
> Sometimes hardware problems can be subtle.

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