Author: Eugene Nalimov
Date: 14:16:10 09/13/02
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On September 13, 2002 at 11:27:43, Christophe Theron wrote:
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>The OS is inherently lousy.
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>An buggy application can corrupt the OS and crash every other running
>application.
Not true for NT/2000/XP. In the past 4 years I suffered 3 crashes ("blue
screens") of 2000/XP. One was due to the antivirus. It set itself as part of the
OS kernel to be able to monitor all the disk I/O, and contains some bugs (MS
customers support knew about that problem, and notified antivirus manufacturer).
Two other problems were due to the bad video drivers written by the hardware
manufacturer.
Windows 9x is another story, of course. Here MS made the decision that
compatibiliy with old software and hardware was more important than reliability.
You don't have to like that decision but at least you should understand why it
was done...
There are two more reasons why you can see Windows crashes: bad hardware and
overclocking. Windows stresses hardware much more than Linux as it uses more
resources due to GUI and lot of services are turned on by default (because, as
you know, average user is not able to find out exactly what service he needs).
90% of overclockers has problems with their systems, but they don't know that,
because problems would happen only if the system is stressed enough. For
example, at some moment Andrew Kadatch wrote a program that stresses *some*
areas of CPU and usually causes overclocked CPU to work inconsistently. He gave
it to several overclockers, and usual reaction was "your stupid program says
that my system is bad, but that is wrong -- I can work on it without any
problems".
Thanks,
Eugene
>Because of this, Windows hardly deserves to be called an "OS".
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>My computer, when running Windows, crashes 10 times a day. Sometimes, just
>closing an Internet connection crashes the system.
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>I have *NEVER* seen this under Linux.
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>But if all you know is Windows, sure you like it. Don't ever try anything else,
>it would be a big shock for you...
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