Re: VIA chipsets all bad? I think not.
Rob Dale (rob@nb.net)
Sun, 06 Sep 1998 15:56:36 -0400
Division by Zero wrote:
>
> > What actually appears to be happening is that Linux is being optimised
> > more and more to the behavior of specific processors and chipsets.
> > (Closer to the metal.) While this is the only way to get optimal
> > performance out of the new features offered by the latest processors
> > and chipsets, there is a great danger in this --- we may be painting
> > ourselves into a corner where Linux is totally unusable on the next
> > generation of cheap off-the-shelf computers. (I notice more and more
> > usenet articles complaining about installation disks unable to boot on
> > the latest computers (K6-2/300-350 3DX lately --- and no helpful
> > followup articles posted that I have noticed so far.)
>
> I agree completely. I was humiliated when the Redhat installation disk
> (2.0.34 I believe) would not boot on one of the machines we were selling
> to a customer. We ended up putting NT instead.
> The machine was a Packard Bell dual P333's (actually it had one in
> at the time of trying to install, other hadn't arrived yet), 27 GIG
> SCSI drives, 640 MB ram, totally hot-swap able....but linux wouldn't
> boot!!!
Not trying to start a dist war...
But, that might be a Redhat problem. I have been unsuccessful
in getting Redhat to run on any of my 6 machines.
Yet, Slackware (which I currently run), Debian, and Caldera
all work fine.
--
Robert Dale
"arrest this man he talks in maths"
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