Re: [Sheflug] Re: No connection yet

[José Luis Gómez Dans <nospam [at] sheffield.ac.uk>]

On Wed, Nov 08, 2000 at 12:24:52PM +0000, Alastair Donlon wrote:
> Careful. Windows will not _obviously fail_ with any old crappy hardware.
> Linux will report errors and, where possible, work around them. Windows
> will not notice errors, silently corrupt essential data, and be prone
> to even more crashes than usual when it has dodgy hardware.

	Alternatively, it will output kernel panics and loads of stuff
in hex so you have to scratch your head for a while :-)

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