Your machine "locks" exactly because XFree86 (or other X implementation) is killed by the kernel for consuming too much memory (the "infamous" OOMKiller). Try:
kill -9 `pidof X`
and you'll see your machine locking exactly like in the DoS described.
The reason it happens is that XFree86 is controling all video hardware (registers, memory...) and when you force it to die, it can't set the hardware back to the default/previous (console) values.
You still can log remotely and reboot your machine, of course, but forget about keyboard, mouse and video.
"I was wondering how to tie a World Cup story into Slashdot"
What about:
"StarWars opening was delayed in Brazil because of the WorldCup. It's going to open there only in July, 11, almost two months after the rest of the World"
Yes, that sucks. I would watch both, of course, and I'm sure everybody would also, but the attention in the last weeks (news, talks and so) was going entirely to the WC. Too bad that marketing and money drive the world...:(
They didn't mention the fact that CL 7.0 comes
with a lot of packages fragmentation.
By "package fragmentation" I mean splitting XFree, Gnome, KDE, glibc and all other big software in a lot of small packages, keeping the compatibility with other distros and with the old CLs.
This is very useful when installing the distro in
a machine with little disk space and specially when doing a remote upgrade (you don't have to download big packages with functionalities that you don't use).
A complete article: "Fragmentation of Packages on Conectiva Linux 7.0" can be found here, but it's in Brazilian Portuguese (I'm sorry).
- Ademar
"Unfortunately, no-one can be told what Linux is.. you must see it for yourself."
Kudo's to NVIDIA for releasing their binary only driver wrapped into a source RPM. Very nifty for people who like to run custom kernels
or beta versions.
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Your machine "locks" exactly because XFree86 (or other X implementation) is killed by the kernel for consuming too much memory (the "infamous" OOMKiller). Try: and you'll see your machine locking exactly like in the DoS described.
The reason it happens is that XFree86 is controling all video hardware (registers, memory...) and when you force it to die, it can't set the hardware back to the default/previous (console) values.
You still can log remotely and reboot your machine, of course, but forget about keyboard, mouse and video.
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sig
Yes, it was in 1990, the WC was in Italia...
:P
Brazil was playing much better (if you can define what 'better' is when we are talking about soccer).
Soccer is an amazing game. I can't explain why, it just is.
BTW, Viva la Fran^H^H^HSenegal!!!!
"I was wondering how to tie a World Cup story into Slashdot"
:(
:)
:PP
What about:
"StarWars opening was delayed in Brazil because of the WorldCup. It's going to open there only in July, 11, almost two months after the rest of the World"
Yes, that sucks. I would watch both, of course, and I'm sure everybody would also, but the attention in the last weeks (news, talks and so) was going entirely to the WC. Too bad that marketing and money drive the world...
Well... at least there was SpiderMan
BTW, viva la Fra^H^H^HSenegal!!!!
You can find all Conectiva Linux full isos in a mirror close to you. My favorite:
http://ftp.nl.linux.org/conectiva/iso/
--
"Unfortunately, no-one can be told what Linux is... you have to see it for yourself."
...like a monkey if I had spent all that money with a Microsoft Certification right now:
//#include
"It [unix] requires you to pay for expensive experts" -- FIXME
dW: ...I read that you had been working at Conectiva for four years, and that you're only 18 now. How old were you when you started there?
Tosatti: I was 14.
They didn't mention the fact that CL 7.0 comes with a lot of packages fragmentation.
By "package fragmentation" I mean splitting XFree, Gnome, KDE, glibc and all other big software in a lot of small packages, keeping the compatibility with other distros and with the old CLs.
Example:
Number of packages
Software CL 6.0 --> CL 7.0
glibc 03 --> 65
XFree86 34 --> 79
kde 60 --> 276
gnome 32 --> 66
koffice 01 --> 19
linuxconf 56 --> 70
-devel 127 --> 373
rpm 03 --> 05
This is very useful when installing the distro in a machine with little disk space and specially when doing a remote upgrade (you don't have to download big packages with functionalities that you don't use).
A complete article: "Fragmentation of Packages on Conectiva Linux 7.0" can be found here, but it's in Brazilian Portuguese (I'm sorry).
- Ademar
"Unfortunately, no-one can be told what Linux is.. you must see it for yourself."
Althought I think this list is missing games from before 1990, the 1st place is fair:
:)
:)
DOOM!!!
Just the best
Owh, yes, and the second: Half life
"Crie um Sistema Operacional que qualqueridiota possa utilizar e grandes idiotas o utilizarão"
Kudo's to NVIDIA for releasing their binary only driver wrapped into a source RPM. Very nifty for people who like to run custom kernels or beta versions.
f ile/NVIDIA_kernel-0.9-769.src.rpm
You can download the kernel module in a source format and compile it in your machine yourself.
http://www.nvidia.com/Pages.nsf/Lookup/linux_02/$
- Ademar
ademar at conectiva.com.br
IMHO, It's a lose of time...
Why not enforce the development of emulators or good programs for good free OSes like GNULinux or FreeBSD?
- Ademar
http://www.inf.ufpr.br/~ademar
"Emacs is a nice OS - but it lacks a good text editor.. That's why I'm using VIM"