Re: Defective Red Hat Distribution poorly represents Linux

[Horst von Brand <vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl>]

David Riley <oscar@the-rileys.net> said:
> Horst von Brand wrote:
> > 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.

> This is something I've noticed as well...
> 
> Windoze is not the only OS to handle bad hardware better than Linux.  On
> my Mac, I had a bad DIMM that worked fine on the MacOS side, but kept
> causing random bus-type errors in Linux.  Same as when I accidentally
> (long story) overclocked the bus on the CPU.  I think that more
> tolerance for faulty hardware (more than just poorly programmed BIOS or
> chipsets with known bugs) is something that might be worth looking into.

NO! The method they use is not to drive the hardware too hard (i.e., you
don't get what you paid for, performance-wise), or just paper over the bug
(it _will_ crash soon enough anyway, so why bother?).
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