[Am-info] [OT] I've gone over to the brightly colored side.

[Geoffrey]

Eric Bennett wrote:

> Geoffrey wrote:
> 
>>>m(I have to say I've found Linux to be kind of
>>>flaky too,
>>>
>>Uptime, 35days 20 hours and counting.  I know that's not a lot, but I
>>don't see Linux crash very often.  Last time was with a bad cdrw driver.
>>
> 
> It doesn't actually crash, it's similar to what I said about OS X... it
> starts behaving erratically so I reboot it to clear that up.  It's never
> actually crashed, although the computer also has Win2k on it, and that
> *has* crashed completely a few times despite the fact that the computer
> spends 95% of its time in Linux.  To be fair, it was fine under RedHat
> 7.0.  It's only since I moved up to 7.1 that I've had trouble (with
> completely new installs, not attempting to update the existing 7.0).
> 
> I should probably downgrade. :-)


I'm running Mandrake 8.0 on my primary machine and I do a bunch on this 
box.  GIMP, Netscape, Mozilla, image capture software/hardware, motion 
detection image capture, speech synthesis, blender, cdrw, scanner, 
modem, fax, well you get it.  I'm also running SuSE on one of my 
firewalls, Mandrake on another, Redhat on a multipurpose box and on my 
web server.  I've never really had any of them crash.  I've had netscape 
lock up with hokey java applets, but never crash.


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