19 Oct
2000
19 Oct
'00
3:58 a.m.
Tim Harrison wrote:
No software crashes for no good reason. It's either broke hardware of
a fairly serious kind or bad hardware...
Sellam Ismail wrote:
Actually, FreeBSD blows both of them off the map...
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. 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.
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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