From: Richard Dawe Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: Win 2000 & Djgpp Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2000 23:40:50 +0000 Organization: Customer of Planet Online Lines: 34 Message-ID: <38ADD882.EAF5587@bigfoot.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: modem-149.tin.dialup.pol.co.uk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: newsg4.svr.pol.co.uk 950960527 3222 62.136.41.149 (19 Feb 2000 11:42:07 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: 19 Feb 2000 11:42:07 GMT X-Complaints-To: abuse AT theplanet DOT net X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.51 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.2.14 i586) X-Accept-Language: de,fr To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com 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/