From:	Richard Dawe <richdawe AT bigfoot DOT com>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: Win 2000 & Djgpp
Date:	Fri, 18 Feb 2000 23:40:50 +0000
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Hello.

Prashant TR wrote:
> Nobody ever said that Linux can't crash. It's only the kernel
> what is bullet-proof.

I wouldn't say the kernel's bulletproof either - it brought down my system
several times when the Adaptec 2940AU drivers were in development. Debian
2.1 kernels always crashed my box (fortunately I had an old one compiled
on RedHat lying around). I managed to totally crash my box several times
when my CD-ROM drive was playing up, just by issuing:

mount /cdrom

as a non-root user.

Not to mention the FAT filesystem support in early 2.2.x kernel releases -
I got several trashed filesystems followed by bad crash! All I did was
edit a file as a non-root user!

I don't expect Linux not to crash. It just seems to crash less than
Windows, and, as time passes, it crashes less and less. It's becoming more
bulletproof.

> But apps which run at superuser level can easily crash your system.

You can crash your system easily as a non-root user too. It's just a lot
harder.

Bye,

-- 
Richard Dawe
richdawe AT bigfoot DOT com ICQ 47595498 http://www.bigfoot.com/~richdawe/

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