Some distributions ship more stable variations of applications or
include scripts that go a bit of the way to ensuring some less stable
programmes perform better.
It has been my experience that RedHat/Mandrake sacrifice stability in
favour of being "first". Depends on what you want ;)
On Mon, 29 Jan 2001 18:36:16 enterfornone wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 06:34:04PM +1100, Martin wrote:
> >
> > I have found that Netscape 4 is a little less stable than IE. But
> when I
> > say a little I mean just that, a little. If Netscape is crashing in
> a
> > way that causes you to need to reboot, you have a serious, serious
> > problem, one you need to resolve. Linux is certainly an acceptable
> > platform for web browsing, though no doubt a more stable web browser
> > would be desirable, for both linux AND Window$.
>
>
> By reboot, I mean I have a duel boot system and I reboot into Windows,
> Netscape has never killed Linux bad enough to need a reboot but it has
> killed X and regualrly kills itself.
>
> Redhat 6.something if that makes a difference? Mandrake was much the
> same.
> Haven't used a differnet distro since pre 4 days, would that make a
> difference.
>
>
>
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