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Subject: Re: [newbie] gates gets Linux
Date: Sun, 3 Dec 2000 22:26:32 -0600
From: R. Edward McCain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sun, 03 Dec 2000, you wrote:
> You are right, of course, Linux is a paradise for coders and programmers,
> but beyond that truth is another, even bigger truth. That is that Linux is
> incredibly stable and powerful as a home PC platform as well as a
> dependable business workstation platform
Er, I've managed to crash the entire platform twice and wreak havoc on
numerous apps just by playing around in my account (NOT as root)
Example:
kde control center
look and feel
screensaver
kswarm
setup
move the 'number of bees' slider to 0
this causes the application to 'crash'
Others are less reproducable, but I can cause Kmail to crash by grabbing a
email that I cc'ed to myself, replying to it and changing the subject line
and body - or something like that. I was being silly and I crashed kmail
twice before I got the hint.
True, my account didn't terminate on those occasions, but what's a stable
platform without stable applications?
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Yours,
R. Edward McCain
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
icq: 599146
Registered Linux User #196613
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Yours,
R. Edward McCain
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
icq: 599146
Registered Linux User #196613
