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Richard Watson <rwatson@pwdltd.co.uk> wrote in message
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>
> I'm not that gifted and I've only been using linux about 18 months.
>
> I admit to a kernel panic but it was during bootup on a cold pc
> with dodgy RAM, a reboot sufficed to sort it out and it only occured
> once more in a similar situation. I blamed the hardware and changed PC.
>
> I've never run enlightenment so I can't speak for it. I run XFCE and
> I find it very stable and fast.

enlightenment's nice but it big and first time I ran it was on 16MB RAM,
next time on 48MB but it had got bigger as well. It's really a screen saver,
nice to look at but pretty useless if you don't own a three button mouse. I
found FVWM much better to use and something else I forget it's name along
with Gnome.

> I've heard of people having to use the magic sysreq from time to time.
> I can't remember the key presses exactly but it goes something like
> <CTRL>+<ALT>+<SysRq> you hold these down and you can safely stop
processes,
> unmount files and reboot if necessary.

I don't know if that would have worked im my case, I did manage to kill X
but the PC screen and keyboard were still frozen.
>
> > I've
> > found NT to be really not that less reliable, I've probably had more
crashes
> > with NT than with Linux but then I've used and abused it about 1000
times
> > more than I have Linux.
> >
>
> Maybe you should get some serius Linux abuse in :-)

Love too, I'll have to rumage for the CD now but I doubt I'll have time to
play with it if I found it, got too much to do and that's all within Windows
so being in linux aint gonna get those things done.

>
> [1] It's a parallel port scanner anyway and I hate the way that things
> freeze while you're using it. SCSI is a much better interface for this
> so maybe I'll upgrade in the near future.

There are USB scanners available now, for around 60 squids, the speed is
almost as good as SCSI and blistering compared to Parallel.

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