Re: Mor on cheeplinux...

[Bob Ham <nospam [at] dcs.shef.ac.uk>]

OK, in reading recent posts there's just some things that I need to
know (and serverely restraining myself here):

On Wed, 29 Mar 2000, Ian Wright wrote:

> I've put it on a P100 on a buggy old motherboard that RH5.2 and SUSE
> 6.3 both complained at and it didn't bat an eyelid.

Surely, support for motherboards (namely their BIOS's quirks and their
onboard peripherals) is dependant on the kernel and not anything to do
with a distribution?

> Neither did it get upset
> at the Rage II + DVD graphics card that RH6.1 wouldn't set up properly or
> the grotty old ethernet card.

((eth == kernel stuff) && (mach64 == XF86 stuff)) != distro stuff


Bob


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