From: rob@plan9.bell-labs.com rob@plan9.bell-labs.com
Subject: [9fans] DMR's OS :(
Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1998 23:58:35 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <19981109045835.2YzPTC8dlmdXEe53kf5LgOqoHa0PSuGA_7XyfG95YS8@z> (raw)
when i was on sabbatical the university installed linux on the PC on my desk.
it crashed regularly, several times a week. the netscape on it crashed at least
several times as often; i never enabled java on it. everyone else in the department
said that i was crazy; linux was very stable, etc. etc. they changed hardware,
it made no difference. i sat down at their desks and crashed their machines,
always by doing nothing more than running xterm and netscape to look at
ordinary things. a friend of mine sat at my desk, typed a single url to her own
perfectly sane home page, and hung the machine completely.
i came to learn what stable means: linux is perfectly stable between crashes.
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1998-11-09 4:58 rob [this message]
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