Motherboard Change- will Fedora survive?

[fredex]

On Mon, Apr 26, 2004 at 05:37:12PM -0700, alan wrote:
> On Mon, 26 Apr 2004, fredex wrote:
> 
> > > When it died suddenly, I was faced with the task of building a new
> > > system. I went to my favorite PC hobby shop (PC Microcenter) and bought
> > > a bare bones system. To make a long story short, I had 3 bad power
> > > supplies, so the last time it was replaced, I had them load boot the
> > > system first. 
> > > 
> > > Well, the manager asked me what OS I was running. When I told him LInux,
> > > he smiled and called on of his Windoze bigots to watch the system boot.
> > > 
> > > system recognized that the hardware platform had changed (P II to P
> > > III), and proceeded to reconfigure itself and boot properly. The only
> > > minor problem I has was my swap space since I upgraded from 128 MB to
> > > 512 MB. I changed that and the system has been running smoothly ever
> > > since.
> > > 
> > > So, go ahead and change the hardware, Linux is not as dependent or
> > > stringent as Windoze....
> > 
> > This is true. And in the OP's case almost certainly a no-brainer, since
> > he's staying within the same CPU family.
> > 
> > But,...
> > 
> > I once tried to downgrade from a PIII to a K6-2. Can you say "disaster" ?
> 
> I think that has more to do with the bizzare K6-2 than Linux.
> 
I don't think of K6-2 as bizarre, it' pretty much a pentium clone.
I always ascribed the problem to the fact that it had been running an
i686 kernel, which surely uses features of a i686 that are not available
on an i586.

> The only issue I have had has been alignment on partition tables. (Some 
> bioses seem to see things a little differently.)  It has not caused any 
> problems though.  (That I noticed.)
> 
> Because Linux does not have the proprietary clinginess, it does not chain 
> itself to the hardware in nasty anti-social ways. One of the reasons I run 
> Linux on all my home systems.
> 
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