Bug#14451: About Debian bug #14451 (Was: A few thoughts about 2.1.4
On Wed, 6 Jan 1999 00:36:54 +0100 (CET), Dirk Hillbrecht <dh@informatik.uni-hannover.de> said:
> We have removed _all_ cards or replaced the absolutely needed ones
> (graphics, floppy) with others. The problem didn't disappear since
> we replaced the mainboard.
> But in fact, the whole story has happened more than one year ago,
> much things have happened in the Linux world since then, and today,
> the most probable solution to a problem like this would be to say to
> the vendor: "Your hardware is broken." That times, the answer was:
> "Your Linux is broken.", which I could not neglect. Today, this
> would not be that easy for the vendor, not only because my
> experience with Linux (and vendors, by the way) has increased a lot,
> but also because Linux is much more accepted these days.
Yes, very true. Irregardless, it would be great if you could try the
new boot floppies. I guess we're closing this bug; I'm sure someone
will open a new one.
Boot-floppies collects a lot of bugs based on wierd hardware problems
on x86.
> (who was very surprised that he heard something about this 1997
> stuff in 1999.)
Well, we care!
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.....Adam Di Carlo....adam@onShore.com.....<URL:http://www.onShore.com/>
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