You must be extremely unlucky. We have supplied hundreds of linux based systems with only nvidia gpu's to customers and never once bricked a system. To be frank, installing an nvidia driver on linux is a non-event regardless of the distribution.
Flex/flash allows persistent sockets obviating polling which architecturally made a world's difference back then and to a certain degree still does for a certain class of applications.
If potential document annotation s/w creators reads this: please build in a feature that simulates the ubiquitous yellow marker for PDF documents. Would have made my life much easier studying for the SCJP.
I am overjoyed that my suspicions have finally been vindicated. I've been working 10+hours a day on linux for the last 13years and you tend to get in tune with your environment (i can still today recite my DOS bootup tune on my XT even though I haven't worked on it for 20 years:-) and some time ago after installing a new flavour of linux I immediately started complaining to fellow workers that something has gone wrong in the kernel but it was not annoying enough to really do something about it; you start living with it.
It manifests sometimes when I compile - my system simply locks up for 20-30 seconds which is something I never experienced before. I'd say it happens once out of every 50 compiles of the same program with gcc. During such occurrences, I can't access anything on my desktop which annoyes me cause I typically switch to another kterm session to prepare to run the build whilst compiling (to keep up the productivity and all that).
I have also seen strange ratios of i/o to cpu wait in 'top' nowadays but can probably ascribe that to CPU's that just became ridiculously fast and the way top calculates its scores. Nevertheless, I've mumbled over and lambasted i/o wait in Linux ever since a very specific time in the past and even though I haven't noted the exact date, I'm sure its related to this.
Anyway, I found this intrigueing enough to create a slashdot account after years to share my joy that the bugs days are hopefully numbered now.
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You must be extremely unlucky. We have supplied hundreds of linux based systems with only nvidia gpu's to customers and never once bricked a system. To be frank, installing an nvidia driver on linux is a non-event regardless of the distribution.
Flex/flash allows persistent sockets obviating polling which architecturally made a world's difference back then and to a certain degree still does for a certain class of applications.
If potential document annotation s/w creators reads this: please build in a feature that simulates the ubiquitous yellow marker for PDF documents. Would have made my life much easier studying for the SCJP.
I am overjoyed that my suspicions have finally been vindicated. I've been working 10+hours a day on linux for the last 13years and you tend to get in tune with your environment (i can still today recite my DOS bootup tune on my XT even though I haven't worked on it for 20 years:-) and some time ago after installing a new flavour of linux I immediately started complaining to fellow workers that something has gone wrong in the kernel but it was not annoying enough to really do something about it; you start living with it. It manifests sometimes when I compile - my system simply locks up for 20-30 seconds which is something I never experienced before. I'd say it happens once out of every 50 compiles of the same program with gcc. During such occurrences, I can't access anything on my desktop which annoyes me cause I typically switch to another kterm session to prepare to run the build whilst compiling (to keep up the productivity and all that). I have also seen strange ratios of i/o to cpu wait in 'top' nowadays but can probably ascribe that to CPU's that just became ridiculously fast and the way top calculates its scores. Nevertheless, I've mumbled over and lambasted i/o wait in Linux ever since a very specific time in the past and even though I haven't noted the exact date, I'm sure its related to this. Anyway, I found this intrigueing enough to create a slashdot account after years to share my joy that the bugs days are hopefully numbered now.