On Tue, 2006-09-05 at 16:13 +0100, Jeff Rollin wrote:
Well said, and almost exactly 100% right, BUT:
1. There is no way an application on Linux can make the OS crash. Just doesn't happen. Despite worries from various quarters over the quality of Linux, I have Never, and I mean NEVER, seen a kernel panic that wasn't caused by passing incorrect boot parameters to GRUB or LILO. Besides, businesses using Linux aren't just going to be using an office suit, whether it's OOo, MS Office or WordPerfect Office - they will see that it's Office that's unstable, not Linux.
When a Linux system runs out of memory, the kernel starts killing processes. Not a kernel crash. But hardly a nice thing to happen. Ever see a MS app that played nice with memory usage? A few well placed memory leaks and Bob's your uncle. (In my case - he really was called Bob.) -- Roger Oberholtzer