> > > Your vote/opinion? :=)
> > vote ? when have we started to vote for stuff in the kernel ? i must have
> > missed some things... the last, i've seen, was Linus denying the GGI in
> > the kernel and myself screaming because this damn X server was
> > locking my workstation again and i've to login over the net to kill
> > the process.. the guy, who said linux is stable, was lieing..
> > sorry for this kernel-policital mail..
> So complain to the xfree people or whereever else you got your X server
> from. The kernel didn't barf => no bug in Linux.
Well .. Linux is stable but that depends on the point of view ..
If i dont touch a Windows Box - if i dont work on it, its (i guess)
stable and runs for a few weeks. Linux runs stable of course, if i dont
use a GUI, but its impossible for me to work without one, because i cant
monitor/control a couple of programs on a 25 line display or when i want
to view a site with netscape (lynx is nice of course but sometimes i need
the graphic) -> so because I have to use X, X is definitely not stable and
Linux cant prevent X massing around with the graphic card, Linux (not the
kernel - the whole system) is not a stable environment.
.. giving a program full access to the graphic card.. thats like giving a
program access to the whole harddisk and hoping that it knows how to
handle the FS and how to avoid data losses..
i think "we" should be open minded for new design steps .. at least the
GGI could be included optional in the kernel..
bye,
therapy