"... is the kind of thing that makes the Linux community look like a bunch of elitist snobs who shout things like 'RTFA' at every question."
Ever asked an innocent question about OpenBSD? Ever looked for the info first and see what happened to the people who *did*?
Example: look for information on how to turn off OpenBSD's IPv6 support - it sure isn't an option in rc.local...
Errrr, no, the CPU was partially fried because it overheated, and so I would boot, be doing something in userland and then *poof* the machine would go down hard and instantly, straight back to POST, as though I physically hit reset. It freaked me out for a while as it was the first time I've ever seen a system go down like that running GNU/Linux in the 10 years I've been exclusively living in it. I never had any warnings in the kernel log, and I knew it couldn't have been bad RAM. I have a CPU sitting right here that *will* take GNU/Linux down without any warnings showing up in logs and so quickly you would exclaim WTF?!? So anyway I'm looking around for another PIII CPU because I hate the idea of landfill. Bad CPU! Baaaaad CPU! You've been a bad CPU and must be punished! So I definitely have defective hardware, and it definitely doesn't show up in logs.
Don't get me wrong - I'm not saying that GNU/Linux is flakey, nor unstable (well, at least the non-development version of Debian I'm running - I suppose I could run those development kernels again) - but on bad hardware, any operating system will fail. The first time I ever used GNU/Linux (slackware 3...) I had bad RAM and found the joy of sigsegv and init crashing...
Its based on BSD... which isn't GNU/Linux. Where do I start? Oh, the license. It has a different init script structure. It has different names for devices in/dev... and so on. so your comment is nonsensical, sorry.
"... linux only rarely hangs on boot, and never reboots in the middle of a session."
Recently my PIII cpu went flakey on me due to an accumulation of dust on the heatsink/fan... I can attest to the fact that GNU/Linux *will* reboot when it is run on flakey hardware!
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An hour long audio interview of Gary McKinnon (2006) is here: http://www.binnallofamerica.com/boaa6.24.6.html
" ... is the kind of thing that makes the Linux community look like a bunch of elitist snobs who shout things like 'RTFA' at every question."
Ever asked an innocent question about OpenBSD? Ever looked for the info first and see what happened to the people who *did*?
Example: look for information on how to turn off OpenBSD's IPv6 support - it sure isn't an option in rc.local ...
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... :)
Try *that* after the M$-flash site
Errrr, no, the CPU was partially fried because it overheated, and so I would boot, be doing something in userland and then *poof* the machine would go down hard and instantly, straight back to POST, as though I physically hit reset. It freaked me out for a while as it was the first time I've ever seen a system go down like that running GNU/Linux in the 10 years I've been exclusively living in it. I never had any warnings in the kernel log, and I knew it couldn't have been bad RAM. I have a CPU sitting right here that *will* take GNU/Linux down without any warnings showing up in logs and so quickly you would exclaim WTF?!? So anyway I'm looking around for another PIII CPU because I hate the idea of landfill. Bad CPU! Baaaaad CPU! You've been a bad CPU and must be punished! So I definitely have defective hardware, and it definitely doesn't show up in logs.
...) I had bad RAM and found the joy of sigsegv and init crashing ...
Don't get me wrong - I'm not saying that GNU/Linux is flakey, nor unstable (well, at least the non-development version of Debian I'm running - I suppose I could run those development kernels again) - but on bad hardware, any operating system will fail. The first time I ever used GNU/Linux (slackware 3
Its based on BSD ... which isn't GNU/Linux. Where do I start? Oh, the license. It has a different init script structure. It has different names for devices in /dev ... and so on. so your comment is nonsensical, sorry.
" ... linux only rarely hangs on boot, and never reboots in the middle of a session."
... I can attest to the fact that GNU/Linux *will* reboot when it is run on flakey hardware!
Recently my PIII cpu went flakey on me due to an accumulation of dust on the heatsink/fan