Linked by Iain Alexander on Thu 17th Apr 2003 07:28 UTC
Linux Several days ago I wrote a rather scathing article about my utter dismay and disappoint with Mandrake 9.1 and by association, Linux as a whole. Since then I have had many many flames and equally as many agreeing emails (is there a simple opposite word for flame?) Since then I have been trying, really really trying to get my system working fully. But time and again I'm coming up against the same brick wall of (un)usability, computer esotericism and down right idiocy.
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Hardware compatiability
by David Hunter on Thu 17th Apr 2003 09:01 UTC

Isn't it the first thing one does before one puchases an operation system to check the software vendor's HCL (hardware compatability list) before one purchases a new operating system. For example logic would say I couldn't run Win XP on a 386, but maybe that is takeing the example to the extreme. So ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS check the HCL b4 you buy an OS, where it be BeoS, Unix, BSD, Linux, Windows.