Tim Harrison wrote:
> Sellam Ismail wrote:
>
> > This is the second reference I've seen this week to complaining about
> > Linux crashing. I find this to be ludicrous.
>
> I don't. I've been using Linux since the early 1.x kernels. I've found
> it to crash quite often. If you do certain things to prevent that, it
> crashes *MUCH* less. Linux is a great server, as long as it does a
> specific task, and that's it. If you make it do too much, it starts to
> suck. That's where Solaris blows it off the map.
Actually, FreeBSD blows both of them off the map...
>
> > Look, if Linux crashes, it's because YOU did something wrong or
> > something's wrong with your hardware. Windows just crashes for seemingly
> > no good reason. Linux doesn't.
>
No software crashes for no good reason. It's either broke hardware of
a fairly serious kind or bad hardware...
> It's Netscape being big, bloated, and horribly written.
Yup. I think things got too "feature-d" too quickly with little thought
to maintenance or support.
> Have some consideration. That's something I've found lacking in your
> recent posts.
>
> > I have a brand new Dell machine. I primarily run IE, a solid telnet
> > client (CRT), a good mail reader (Pegasus), Word, Works, Napster, and
> > whatnot. Nothing too exotic or risky. Windows crashes. I have to reboot
> > about 2 times a month.
> >
> > Fix my computer, Ernest :)
What's the crash: Problem in GDI.EXE -- possible video driver problem.
I resolved one of those that was about to get a machine swap.
What's the crash info?
> And I've managed, and maintained Red Hat 6.2 servers that were broken
> horribly. Red Hat doesn't solve your ills.
Boy it sure doesn't... I've given up on Red Hat.
It's now FreeBSD and Mandrake or Caldera (one Corel box here) for me.
Bill
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Received on Thu Oct 19 2000 - 10:58:33 BST