linux doesnt need ctrl alt del?? ha!

[Robert Brandtjen]

On Friday 29 March 2002 08:32 pm, Stephanie Bryant wrote:
> I can't necessarily reproduce the effects, and I don't know what I do to do
> it, but I have been known to crash systems within five minutes of touching
> them, linux or otherwise.

Have considered drying your hands off before touching the keyboard ?

:-)

Most , if not all, hard crashes are either due to user malfeasance - forcing 
in an RPM which doesn't belong there or using untested beta kernel's. 

Many, many crashes are caused from faulty hardware. MacOS 9 and windows will 
often forgive bad ram, and crash periodically as you expect them to - because 
you expect them to, you don't consider the faulty hardware. Linux shouldn't 
crash and take down the whole system with it, Unix systems in general 
shouldn't. If they do, look at the logs and see what caused it. a bad drive, 
or faulty ram, poor cabaling, etc. can cause these crashes.

the only time I have crashed a Linux box was using experimental video drivers 
and had X misconfigured for them - causing a kernel panic due to the video 
mod itself when it was called forth, other then that, nothing.

Miscompilling a kernel and it's mods can cause it as well.

using Tail on OSX used to cause it to die, so did opening 10 or more apps, 
but that was a year ago, I'm sure it's been fixed now.
-- 
 Robert Brandtjen
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