From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 20 4:14: 9 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dire.bris.ac.uk (dire.bris.ac.uk [137.222.10.60]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C399E37B418 for ; Tue, 20 Nov 2001 04:14:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk by dire.bris.ac.uk with SMTP-PRIV with ESMTP; Tue, 20 Nov 2001 12:13:52 +0000 Received: from cmjg (helo=localhost) by mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk with local-esmtp (Exim 3.16 #1) id 1669mU-0003Ih-00; Tue, 20 Nov 2001 12:13:38 +0000 Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 12:13:37 +0000 (GMT) From: Jan Grant X-X-Sender: To: Anthony Atkielski Cc: Steve Brown , Chip , questions Subject: Re: home pc use In-Reply-To: <009a01c171a9$4eedbee0$0a00000a@atkielski.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 20 Nov 2001, Anthony Atkielski wrote: > Steve writes: > > > If you're tired of Windows crashing you sure can! > > The KDE environment under FreeBSD stalled or crashed on me nearly > half a dozen times in one day. That's about as many crashes as I've > experienced in two years on Windows NT, and all of the Windows NT > crashes were due to bad drivers. > > Unless he intends to run FreeBSD in its native, command-line mode, > he should not expect an increase in stability over Microsoft > Windows, and he may experience the opposite. I use KDE all the time, without problems. I understand you're also seeing odd nightly crashes, and all on a new machine. Have you tried swapping your memory out for somethine else, etc.? -- jan grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44(0)117 9287088 Fax +44 (0)117 9287112 RFC822 jan.grant@bris.ac.uk HP-unix: Open Sauce product, available in 57 distributions. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message