Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 21 Nov 2000 16:34:08 -0500 | From | David Riley <> | Subject | Re: Defective Red Hat Distribution poorly represents Linux |
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David Lang wrote: > > David, usually when it turns out that Linux finds hardware problems the > underlying cause is that linux makes more effective use of the component, > and as such something that was marginal under windows fails under linux as > the correct timing is used.
This is true. What I suppose would be the solution is that if faulty hardware is found, a reduction in performance should be made. This is already the case for things like broken PCI BIOS where one can either set the initialization to work a different way or try to make the machine autodetect it. I certainly approve of more effective use of any given component, but sometimes I think it's better to offer the user a choice in the case of faulty hardware. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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