[vox] One more reason to prefer Linux...

[Micah Cowan]

Ken Bloom wrote:

>On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 12:41:10PM -0800, Jeff Newmiller wrote:
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>>On Thu, 3 Mar 2005, Richard S. Crawford wrote:
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>>>And behold, Micah Cowan flailed at a keyboard and did expound:
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>>>>The exception to this could be if a faulty video driver hung. But of
>>>>course, if this happened to Windows, you wouldn't be able to get a task
>>>>manager, either. :-)
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>>>Yes, this is true.  I hadn't thought of that.  But even if my Linux box
>>>had a faulty video driver, I'd still be able to SSH into it to examine the
>>>situation pretty easily.
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>>As someone who has had to cope with exactly such problems in Linux, I can
>>assure you that you are wrong.
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>I've had to deal with this before too. My ATI Rage 128 Pro couldn't
>handle 3D acceleration, and it would frequently freeze up if it was
>doing 3D acceleration. I could SSH in and kill the offending program,
>and the display would become usable again. 
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>I solved the problem by turning off 3D acceleration, and eventaully
>got a cheap NVIDIA.
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Yes, but I think the point Jeff was making is that it's not a given that 
you can just SSH in.