My experience with Vista was very bad for almost every piece of software on it. Even M$s own code behaved very badly, and consumed excessive resources. Crashes, hangs, bizarre results - I saw everything. M$ blames it on the software vendors not "following the rules" but I think that's blaming the victim - they changed much of the kernel interface without regard for existing code and expected every ISV would rewrite to the new "standard" that they dictated. No one (well, very few) has that kind of time and money.
Anyway, I would recommend XP if you have to use M$, else switch to a Linux OS (I've changed a few friends and family to Ubuntu without a substantial gain in their sanity and a reduction of my "can you help me" load) and don't look back. Kicad runs nicely on Linux, as does OpenOffice, Evolution, QCad, ..... Donald. ----- Original Message ----- From: "bkanobe" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Friday, August 14, 2009 10:14:34 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: [kicad-users] Re: pcbnew crashes with zone fill -> more information I sent some stuff to Jean-Pierre and he didn't seem to have any issues. Though he was trying it in XP and I in Vista (no idea why that would matter.) In any event, its seems to be something about the kbool libraries. I will eventually look into it but just haven't had the time lately. I don't think its a huge issue and have effectively worked around it with a hack for the time being. I would be interested if anyone else is seeing this problem in vista though. Cheers, Matt --- In [email protected], Dick Hollenbeck <d...@...> wrote: > > > bkanobe, > > > > Can you provide a set of datafiles and a procedure description which > will cause the crash 100% of the time? > > If so, somebody can probably track this down and get it fixed. > > Dick >
