[COMP] Re: system crashes (was: state of...)

>  Thanks!   I have lots of guestions .  Will ask soon. Thanks for the positive
> feedback and i agree completely. Here's a shot: i understand  the windows
> platforms are prone to crashes. Read:  buggy performances   whatever.  How
> are crashes  differentiated  from  the monitor/system freezing?  And what is
> the correlation of the  os "bugs" to  Buggy software. Running "98 with
> 400mhrz celeron - 64mgb Ram and just a bit over 6gigs on hard drive.

I dunno- if the entire machine is locking up, it's a system crash, and
if it's just a regular program crash, then it's just a regular program
crash.:)  Note though, that programs themselves do crash under OS's
other than Windows, just not as frequently, and when they do, they don't
take down the entire system (speaking from my experience with Linux).  

As for the "correlation of the OS bugs to buggy software," I'm not sure
there really is one.  The OS is pretty independent of the software that
runs on it, with the exception of shared libraries, the OS controlling
the memory the program uses, etc.  I guess you could formulate a theory
that the poor programming in Windows leads to other programmers not
putting the effort in too, but that's a stretch.  However, I do find
that most software I run under Linux is of a much higher standard than
the things I come across under Windows.

This isn't Linux's doing, really, it's the difference in programming
paradigms: open source software is generally better written because the
source, and the programmers' reputations are stuck right out for
everyone to see, and the process of peer review causes the code to
constantly improve and evolve.  Then again, with a lot of Linux software
these days, you're dealing with an "unfinished product," that's at
version 0.5.1 or something, so features and functionality are often
missing.  

John




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