In <1290183489.3477.10.ca...@firefly.bordenrhodes.com>, Borden Rhodes wrote: >Can I get a second on Teddy's opinion? I tend to believe that I just >share the Linux experience, and if I can get something useful done >whilst the computer is willing, so much the better. Is this the truth >about open source software? Maybe I am in the wrong distribution and >I'm wasting the list's time.
That's not my experience at all. Crashes are exceedingly rare for me. I have had a few single-application lockups, but that is usually bad Javascript or Flash causing issues in my browser. Killing a few processes or switching to a browser with those features turned off lets me pick up right where I started. I mainly use Debian stable (first Etch, now Lenny), but I use a mixed system to pull some packages from testing or unstable. It started with KDE 4.2 from unstable; once the freeze started I installed a number of things from testing; at this point, most of my system is testing, but testing is about to become the new stable (Squeeze). Prior to moving to Debian, I used Gentoo. Crashes weren't really more frequent, but I encountered more issues when trying to keep the system up-to- date. I felt I was spending to much time administering my system and not enough time using it. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net/ \_/
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