Re: 7.1 is out soon

[Thomas Dodd <ted cypress com>]

Kalum / Grendel wrote:
> 
> On  Thu, 19 Apr 2001, Thomas Dodd commented thusly,
> 
> > Tried Win95. It didn't like the system at all,
> > and wouldn't finish the install.
> 
> In all fairness Thomas, win95 is almost 7 years old, so this is not
> surprising, for example I doubt whether any linux distro 7 years ago would
> support your hardware config out of the box.

I'd bet that I can put RHL-4.1 and/or 5.0 on it without problems
other than X11 and sound not working. I know that one of the RHL-6.2
kernels had problem with T-bird Athlons, and probably Durons too,
but that's the only issue I'd expect. I'll try one of them tonight :)

> RH 7.0 is not even one year old, so if you tried say Win ME or Windoze
> 2000 (the equivalent aged windoze Os's) and they failed then we can come
> to a conclusion about the installation process.
> 
> > Tried Win98. The install completed, after 5 reboots.
> 
> Again it is a remarkable result that it completed the setup because the OS
> is 4 years old.
> 
> > Then it booted an went to setup components
> > (date/time/control panel/and such)
> > Suddenly, I get BSODs. I still cannot get it to boot
> > to the desktop correctly.
> 
> Is your computer overclocked or instable in someway? I ask this because on

Not at all.

> some computers, especially those which are home built, even when they are
> not overclocked they suffer from instability because of radiation from the
> clock gen frequency, I once had a computer which I couldnt run at the
> 100mhz clock speed for long because it would become instable when it got
> hot, but the problem was solved when I went to the bios and turned off the
> "Generate Clock ticks for empty slots" option which was by default on.

It's a Duron 750 (which  did run at 1GHz but I was just testing it) and
a single 256MB -PC133 DIMM, running on a 100MHz FSB.
The only add ons are the CD/Floppy/ide disk. None are UDMA, and worked
great in a K6-3 system and a P166/MMX system (until the board died,
which is how the Duron box came about and ther K6-3 was used to test
all the parts to find what was bad)

> These sort of instability problems are more often bought to light by
> windoze than linux because of windoze's stresses the hardware more than
> linux.

Windows is just less robust. One system had 100+ days uptime in linux,
and had lots of alpha/beta/CVS code. I hit it hard with compiles all
the time. Windows wouldn't stay up for a week, with nothing running.
I reboted it to read some word docs. Didn't reboot to linux.
4-56 days later I had to reset it to reboot. It just sat there with
nothing going on, not even a screen saver, but locked up any way.

It was still running RedHat 6.1 when I gave it away for X-mas.

	-Thomas