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[Salman Khilji <skhilji@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>
> But what I find interesting and disturbing, is that out Windows machines
> at work don't crash.  I work with scientists.  And they never say their
> machines crash.  They are doing constant scientific data analysis, and
> technical document preparation.  I should ask more of them if their
> machines crash.  But so far, I have been very disappointed to find, of
> the three guys that I talk to regularly about this, that they say their
> machines run for weeks without crashing.  This disappoints me because I
> can't honestly argue to them that Linux is more stable.  In fact, with
> the instability of the flagship Konqueror, that they would most
> certainly encounter if they tried a modern Linux, while clearly it is
> not representative of the stability of the underlying Linux, they would
> likely get a bad taste about that.
>


BTW, long gone are those days that Windows machines would crash a lot.  Today 
Windows 2000 almost never crashes in daily work.  XP is 2000 based and is 
supposed to be more stable, so things in this respect don't look good for 
Linux.

Salman