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To: John Jasen <jjasen1@umbc.edu>
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Subject: Re: Defective Red Hat Distribution poorly represents Linux 
In-Reply-To: Message from John Jasen <jjasen1@umbc.edu> 
   of "Mon, 20 Nov 2000 13:22:28 CDT." <Pine.SGI.4.21L.01.0011201318480.2040834-100000@irix2.gl.umbc.edu> 
Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2000 17:32:26 -0300
From: Horst von Brand <vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl>
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John Jasen <jjasen1@umbc.edu> said:

[...]

> 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.

So what? My former machine ran fine with Win95/WinNT. Linux wouldn't even
end booting the kernel. Reason: P/100 was running at 120Mhz. Fixed that, no
trouble for years. Not the only case of WinXX running (apparently?) fine
on broken/misconfigured hardware I've seen, mind you.
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Dr. Horst H. von Brand                       mailto:vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl
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