On Mon, Aug 03, 1998 at 08:25:30AM -0400, Mike Barton wrote: > >Just to add my experiences of win95 into the frey, i have also done the > MB > >swap thing and while after a lot of rebooting in managed to recover, on > the > >other hand my bro's machine is almost identical to mine (only minor > >differences lijke graphics card, HD make) failed miserable to survive > the > >same swap, it just shows that if you make any major hardware changes > best to > >reinstall. (apart from the fact that windows is a joke) > .. > Fray is right! Say, did you try an Alpha MB, Z-80 or 6809 maybe? How > well does an Apple PPC MB swap work? Since Linux doesn't survive such > swaps any better than anyone else, what are you writing about to begin > with?
I beg to differ...Linux seems to survive equipment swaps much better than most OSes (especially Windows...but not as well as DOS actually ;) (depening on how "tweaked" you have DOS)) The nice thing is very little configuration info is stored on the machine.. it is mostly all detected at startup. I have build a linux system on 1 computer...taken the hard drive out and placed it directly in a second radicly different system and watched it boot and work first time (built ona pentium...placed it on a 386) I have seen windows bomb out totally doing the same thing. As far as a PPC MB swap...MacOS seems to handle such things fine...dunno about linux but I would assume it works. > If this is yet-another herd like MS bash, think about using IRC or > the National Enquirer. Better yet, why not spend your time writing some > software. Linux could use things like Delphi, Access, Excel, DBase, SQL > Server... well you get the picture. mmm there are alwready some SQL servers for linux. As for Access and Excel.. I dunno about Access and Excel..but maybe programs like them (I hate macro viruses...see em all the time at work) -Steve -- /* -- Stephen Carpenter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>------------ */ E-mail "Bumper Stickers": "A FREE America or a Drug-Free America: You can't have both!" "honk if you Love Linux" -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
