Richard Bos wrote:
Op Friday 11 May 2007 20:24:49 schreef Petr Klíma:
Aaron Kulkis wrote:
I think it's more of an observation effect.
Windows is so buggy, that when hardware errors do occur,
it's just background noise in the all-too-typical crashing
and failing...
Well, I don't agree at all. What I experienced was correct Windows
behaviour (no errors, at least none reported) while in LInux programs
crashed now and then without apparent reason.
I agree with Carlos that LInux most probably uses hardware more
aggressively, something like leaving less time between successive
actions therefore leaving less time for the things (signal levels etc.)
to settle down. That wouldn't be a problem for perfectly stable hardware
whose critical operating frequencies are quite higher than the real
operating ones (e.g. all transients finished soon enough). Once you got
hardware which is operating at (or behind) the edge, you may get anything.
As example: we once obtained a computer that had been running windows fine for
ages. The moment we started installing linux on it, it failed. Indeed it
already failed during the installation! Running a memory check tool showed
that memory was bad => computer to the IT department, they stated that there
was nothing wrong with the system using their tools! After talking a bit
longer the faulty memory got replaced and the machine started to behave
correctly.
And upon re-installing windows, it MAGICALLY worked properly
with bad memory???
I call bullshit.
NO software works properly with bad memory.
From this we learned that linux uses indeed all resources that it has
available, while MS does probably not....
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