Two years of Taranis and a year of Brigantia and no KPs or crashes, suspend
and hibernate work fine.
For me, instability in GNU/Linux usually points to hardware failures.
You can check your RAM with the ' memtest86+ ' package from memtest.org .
' fsck ' and ' badblocks ' will check the HD.
Cheap USB ports on laptops have caused errors for me before.
As root, you can do a rudimentary check with ' tail -f /var/log/syslog ' and
then jiggling the USB cables.
Trisquel is a solid build , thanks to all who put their effort towards making
this great free distro.