Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 12:11:48 +0100 From: Robert Klein <RoKlein@roklein.de> To: "Anthony Atkielski" <anthony@atkielski.com>, "Chip" <chip@wiegand.org> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: home pc use Message-ID: <E1667rO-0002md-00@mrvdom03.schlund.de> In-Reply-To: <009a01c171a9$4eedbee0$0a00000a@atkielski.com> References: <3BF9B12B.3D521A4D@nycap.rr.com> <20011119220243.A268@prayforwind.com> <009a01c171a9$4eedbee0$0a00000a@atkielski.com>
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"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. Perhaps this was due to your buggy VIA Southbridge, mentioned in another thread, IIRC? Though KDE crashing possibly indicates a faulty memory module / memory timing problems... >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. As a side note, running a graphical user interface doesn't automagically mean, you have to use KDE. There's fvwm, icewm, twm ;), etc... Robert To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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