Well, unfortunately linux does crash from time to time. Its always been designed and focused on the business-unix-server types of markets. Linux will run on a big server with SCSI drives, 3com ethernet cards, and VESA VGA video under heavy load for hundreds of days without a crash or reboot. But all the newer kernel modules to support the latest in desktop home user peripherals aren't always tested so well. All the fancy new graphics drivers and openGL support and whatnot are a somewhat new advance, and they are still working on those. Nvidia cards are notorious for having problems with either the builtin drivers or the nvidia site drivers. I've had good experiences with them, but other people like to complain about them. It could just be faulty hardware on your computer, though.
-Eric Hattemer On Tue, 2003-01-21 at 15:01, Karen Lofstrom wrote: > Yesterday I dwaddled over my discrete math homework and played a game I > found on my KDE desktop obsessively between intervals of math. > > I was extremely *surprised* when the computer started responding slowly, > screen flickering, redraw faltering, and then finally crashed. > > I should have saved a copy of the error screen, I really should. Instead I > just rebooted and it seems to have been working fine since. Probably > something to do with the video card driver, which I didn't install, my > brother did. > > I am bemused. I thought Linux didn't do that :) > > No big problem, unless it starts happening frequently.
