Re: [plug] Big-iron OSes vs Linux

[Orlando Andico]

On Mon, 8 May 2000, eric pareja wrote:
..
> The worst cases of X actually crashing the kernel usually result in
> reboots for me. I don't remember how often that was, but that was years
> ago. 

It can still happen today. One word: DRM*


* direct rendering manager, the kernel part of DRI

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