> now i am getting very, very annoyed. with all the talk about how stable > etc. debian is then i try it and all the claims are invalid. first with > the default everything on X etc. mozilla comes up with errors (actually > they are X errors, like "error invalid ButtonX call" etc. you get the
Debian is stable. Mozilla isn't, it will crash. It isn't finished yet. But here is the difference from real unstable systems such as windows: Mozilla won't take other programs with it when it dies! It won't kill your machine at all, no matter how many times you crash it! You can crash mozilla a hundred times and your other programs will still be running. No os will run a unfinished app in a stable way, but a stable os should not get in trouble just because some half-finished program does its worst. So, debian is stable. You don't have to reboot just because the machine has been running two weeks (or years) continuously. It won't degrade with time, it won't fall over from running a pile of big programs. There is a netscape 4.5 compiled for libc6. Get that instead of mozilla. It works much better, although it will die occationally. You just restart it in such cases, it doesn't happen often enough to be annoying. Helge Hafting