Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2000 23:43:01 +0500 (MVT) From: Prashant TR X-Sender: prashant_tr AT midpec DOT com To: Richard Dawe cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Subject: Re: Win 2000 & Djgpp In-Reply-To: <38ADD882.EAF5587@bigfoot.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Errors-To: dj-admin AT delorie DOT com X-Mailing-List: djgpp AT delorie DOT com X-Unsubscribes-To: listserv AT delorie DOT com Precedence: bulk On Fri, 18 Feb 2000, Richard Dawe wrote: > 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. Any kernel version that is odd (such as 2.1.x, 2.3.x, etc.) are all unstable. I think you should have been aware of that. That's exactly why RedHat ships only even versions of the kernels. > 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! Agreed, but it doesn't crash on all systems. That's the difference. > 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. Yes, agreed. > You can crash your system easily as a non-root user too. It's just a lot > harder. Please cite an example. If this can crash every system, that's certainly a bug and should be reported to the kernel developers (Mail in private). But this is getting off-topic. I think we should stop this thread.