Re: [Staffslug] Here's one for ya (Possibly Kevan?)

On 15/02/07, Kris Douglas <webbox.uk(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: To be honest it doesn't really matter what OS is being used if the either HD or the RAM is starting to play up. Although, saying that, Linux and probably the various BSD flavours are actually quicker to tell you that RAM is starting to fail. I've had a few PC's refuse to play ball with Linux and I then thought it was just lack of support of hardware somewhere along the line. Quite often Windows would go on just great and work fine. But then, after a few months it would start to crash a little too often. It nearly always turns out that a RAM stick is failing. Pop some fresh stuff in and lo and behold Linux will indeed load and run beautifully. Which brings me neatly to my dearly held theory that Windows, as insecure as it maybe, is not actually as flaky as we might like to make out. How many times have you heard people moan about Windows crashing all the time? Yes, I know, lots :-) Yet I have honestly never had major problems in the same manner as others. Heck, I've even succesfully ran Win 98 and Win Me :-) I truly believe - Dick has heard all this before by the way - that a lot of problems people have is purely down to bad RAM. With Linux not being so tolerant of bad RAM right from the word go it just does not surface so much when using Linux. Then of course Linux gets a bad reputation for not working on many PC's...but that's another story. -- ============================================== Don't take it to the tip recycle it via the Freecycle(r) Network. For a group near to you look here: Worldwide http://www.freecycle.org/ United Kingdom http://uk.freecycle.org/ ============================================ Kevan Farmer Linux user #373362 Staffordshire