by >I always heard that the great thing about Linux was that applications
>may crash, but they'll never take down the system as with Windows. But
>two or three times in the last week, an application has frozen and
>forced me to reboot. Once with Applixware, once with WINE, and once
>when perhaps I opened up to o many apps at once (is this possible)??
Somebody adviced me to loop kernel compilation.
It turned out, that the machine had defect hardware (memory),
because compilation was giving errors at RANDOM places.
2. I had no other crush cases with Linux. (Well, when I was a newbie,
sometimes I pressed RESET without trying to think of something better.
Ms Win customs die hard :-)
I dont have applixware, but Wine (when I used it), never crushed
the system.
It is interesting to note, that even after crushing due to bad memory,
Linux continued to receive pings correctly!
Roman Suzi
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