Linux is sure as hell not invincible, no OS is. I've had linux lock up/hang/freeze on me on a handful of occasions, but I usually find that its to do with dodgy hardware, or corrupt installers or something. The fact that i'm running debian unstable doesn't help matters either.
I'm prepared to say "Linux doesn't lock-up like Windows", 'cause IMHO its true. I use linux because it more functional, and (most of the time) more stable. But when it breaks, it breaks so much more impressively than windows. (For example, the update I did yesterday, which removed sawfish and gnome-terminal, and corrupted apache) But don't let it worry ya, It's all fun 'n games... Cheers, Steve On Sun, Aug 11, 2002 at 08:35:19PM +1200, Peter Cornelius wrote: > > Who said that Linux doesn't lock-up like Windows! > > I was trying to save a copy of my MBR (mbr.b) by copying to diskette via > Mandrake 8.2 and Konquerer. The mouse pointer disappeared and the machine > locked up. No copying was done to the diskette according to the 'copy window'. > Only a Power-on Reset restarted. Of course it then went through the > recovery from an unsatisfactory close down and I see that the mbr.b file is > now dated February while on diskette is a file with current date and time, > but I suspect that it is actually only the header which was written. > > Peter. -- )--------------------Stephen Nicholas--------------------( Uni Hall Ph: (03) 341 1500 Private Bag 4760 Extn: 54419 Christchurch 021 504 412 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 70245950 )---------------www.steve.nicholas.net.nz----------------(
