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Why is Linux stable?
voidmain:
Well, it's hard to say what his problems are without more detailed descriptions. He said "Linux dumps core". Well, I believe he meant the applications dumped core. I couldn't tell by his description if he only had a problem with one or more applications or if the entire system stopped (didn't sound like that was happening). He could look at the core dumps and possibly get a clue as the what is causing the problem. He could look in the system logs and possibly find problem areas (/var/log/messages and /var/log/boot.log). Dunno, never had any problems like that in RedHat 7.2 on any machine...
[ August 07, 2002: Message edited by: VoidMain ]
Tonerman:
I think someone's getting the OS.. and the programs running on the OS confused..... Linux is stable.. I've been ..torturing my machine with all my puttering about learning what this button and that comman does.. and configuring stuff.. like sound(Linux has superior sound quality than my 98 machine.. and it's using a shitty 16 bit sound card.. I think).. anyhoo..
My linux box hasn't crashed.... nothing big. I've had a few problems.. but.. they were my fault..
That is the thing.. when things go wrong on Linux.. it's more than likely your fault.... on Windows.. it's random... might as well ask Loki(norse god of mischief) if he did it...
lazygamer:
Well if 1 or 2 out of 1000 wind0ze boxes are highly stable, then it's likely that 1 or 2 out of 100000 Linux boxes are cursed to instability.
If you want the problem solved 007, perhaps mention things like....
1)Have you ever tweaked your bios for reasons other then getting a piece of hardware functioning? Reasons like stability, performance etc.
2)What is your history of stability with wind0ze? Surely it crashes once in awhile or gives some totally gay error.
3)Have you tried clearing off Redhat and re-installing it?
4)What about clearing off Redhat, and then trying out a different distro? Perhaps Mandrake might be an idea, maybe more "powerful" distros are easier to mess up during installation or tweaking.
5)You don't have wind0ze and Linux on the EXACT same partition do you?
6)Has your Linux been like this the moment you installed it? If not what did you do, regardless of significance, just before the problems appeared?
These questions I asked you are just common sense questions from someone who has yet to touch Linux, chances are one of the more experinced people here could grill you with much better questions.
[ August 08, 2002: Message edited by: lazygamer ]
Agent007:
lazygamer,
1)No, the bios is not tweaked, anyway even if it were tweaked, would that have a negative impact on Linux? Why and how?
2)No man, Windows hasn't hung on me, during shutdown yes, but not otherwise. Everyweekend I run a regcleaner, clean out the junk etc, so it runs OK
3)I noticed the kill signals and in verison 7.1 and 7.2, they dont pop up every now and then, but yeah suddenly KDE will spit it out,when I change some settings in the control panel etc.
4)Don't wanna switch to Mandrake since everyone is on Redhat. Have to answer Redhat certs so....it's better if I stick to it.
5) WinXP is on the primary disc and Redhat on the secondary.
6) Havent done any major system changes...
PS:-Dosen't anyone here ever receive kill signal errors? If yes, then I really have some digging to do.
thanks!
007
[ August 08, 2002: Message edited by: Agent007 ]
voidmain:
Could you describe in more detail exactly the events leading up to it and exactly the message that pops up and what application it is associated with?
I think you are seeing a KDE application crash but I am not sure without more details. I occasionally (not often) have Konqueror crash on me if I try and load something it doesn't like but I just fire it back up and press on if it does. But I am now on RedHat 7.3 which uses KDE 3.x. You would still be on KDE 2.2. I don't recall if I had any problems with any KDE apps on the older version.
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