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Date:      Tue, 20 Nov 2001 12:13:37 +0000 (GMT)
From:      Jan Grant <Jan.Grant@bristol.ac.uk>
To:        Anthony Atkielski <anthony@atkielski.com>
Cc:        Steve Brown <gtabug@prayforwind.com>, Chip <chip@wiegand.org>, questions <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: home pc use
Message-ID:  <Pine.GSO.4.31.0111201212240.11938-100000@mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk>
In-Reply-To: <009a01c171a9$4eedbee0$0a00000a@atkielski.com>

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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.?


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