Re: Let's vote for PnP on 2.2 (Was: PnP in 2.2 ?)

Tethys (tethys@ml.com)
Tue, 09 Dec 1997 10:03:10 +0000


>> 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.

My view is that the kernel didn't prevent a badly behaved application
from screwing up the hardware => bug in Linux. That's half the problem
with NT -- far too many apps are capable of crashing the machine.

However, this has already been flamed to death from both sides, so until
we have a viable alternative, live with it (as others have pointed out,
GGI isn't yet ready, even if Linus were to allow it in the kernel).

Tet

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