On Friday 11 May 2007 07:29, Petr Klíma wrote:
Well, it's quite surprising, but Linux is by order of magnitude more sensitive to hardware stability. Memory errors, overclocking and such may cause Linux to produce weird errors while Windows run smoothly. ...
I know this is the conventional wisdom, and I don't really dispute it, but I am at a loss to explain why it would be so. Does anyone know where this extra sensitivity to marginal hardware originates? Why would Windows be more tolerant? Do they do something to be more robust (e.g., catch hardware fault exceptions and attempt retries or some such tactic)?
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Cheers, Tosuja
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