On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 03:18:55AM +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
On 08/31/2009 12:12 AM, Tomek Chrzczonowicz wrote:
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> Can running pure rawhide damage my hardware?
Generally no since if software can damage your hardware, then there is a
hardware bug as well but I should warn you that there has atleast been
one recent case where such a thing did happen. So yes, it *is* possible
but that is not specific to Rawhide.
http://lwn.net/Articles/300202/
See also
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=478608
There are obvious reasons why such problems are not so easy to
reproduce. In any case my old monitor turned into a pile of scrap.
Michal