First, let me tell you that I have several linux box at home, and that
one of them is running for two months, without a reboot. And still I
could say that it's running for one year, since the reboots are ONLY due
to electricity failures or hardware upgrades!!
You have to realize that your linux system REALLY rarely crashes. Your
problems come from the applications you use under linux. And I'm sure
that most (if not all) of your system hangs could have been resolved by
telneting from another computer, and killing the faulty processes.
But that beeing said, I must admit that I could not help you with your
problems, as I don't use (and so don't know) KDE. In fact, I hate KDE.
I'm sure it can help newbies, but it's an enourmous (and often useless)
loss of system ressources and memory. And I already underwent problems
such as yours. That's what made me give it up.
Try to use enlightenment (or even windowmaker). I'm sure you will have a
lot fewer problems with those ones.
Mohamed Saad wrote:
>
> Hello everyone...
> I have installed Mandrake 7.0 a week ago...
> I just have a small question..
> I heard things about Linux like "Rock Solid" and
> so...
> What i noted is that Mandrake 7.0 crashes just like
> Windows!!! Yes... Its crashes are much less than
> Windows! but.. It crashes!!! It crashed about 4 times
> this week!! (windows crashes at a rate of 3 times/day!
> so Linux is better!)
>
> well... here are the crashes!
> KDE: I was opening 2 windows of Netscape. And
> suddenly, the whole system freezed! I just could move
> the mouse! but i can't do anything! I had to press
> ctrl+alt+backspace to log out! and it worked!
> KDE: I pressed Log Out, the screen turned black, and i
> couldn't Do any thing! i had to press "Reset"
> Xfce3: It was my first time to even see it! i just
> used it for 15 seconds!! :) i pressed the button with
> the penguin, and the whole system freezed!! I had to
> press "reset"
> Gnome: I was just moving around... It suddenly made a
> GPF, and told me that this may be due to a bug, and
> they gave some email to report at! (this is not really
> serious, as it didn't really crash the system!)
>
> Now, the point is... I am NOT upset of all these
> crashes!! :)
> I am used to them from the old days of Windows!
> Windows taught me lots of things! when the system
> crashes, I just grin and coldly press the "Reset"
> button!
>
> The point is... Why do people say that linux is "ROCK
> SOLID"?? it is NOT "rock solid"! It is just," more
> solid than Windows!"
> I was just wondering!! :)
>
> Thank you...
>
> Urs
> Mohamed Saad
>
> Note: All my hardware is supported under linux, in
> case u r wondering!! :)
>
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