[luau] I crashed SUSE 6.2 playing Shishensho :)

[Eric Hattemer]

Well, unfortunately linux does crash from time to time.  Its always been
designed and focused on the business-unix-server types of markets. 
Linux will run on a big server with SCSI drives, 3com ethernet cards,
and VESA VGA video under heavy load for hundreds of days without a crash
or reboot.  But all the newer kernel modules to support the latest in
desktop home user peripherals aren't always tested so well.  All the
fancy new graphics drivers and openGL support and whatnot are a somewhat
new advance, and they are still working on those.   Nvidia cards are
notorious for having problems with either the builtin drivers or the
nvidia site drivers.  I've had good experiences with them, but other
people like to complain about them.  It could just be faulty hardware on
your computer, though.  

-Eric Hattemer

On Tue, 2003-01-21 at 15:01, Karen Lofstrom wrote:
> Yesterday I dwaddled over my discrete math homework and played a game I
> found on my KDE desktop obsessively between intervals of math.
> 
> I was extremely *surprised* when the computer started responding slowly,
> screen flickering, redraw faltering, and then finally crashed.
> 
> I should have saved a copy of the error screen, I really should. Instead I
> just rebooted and it seems to have been working fine since. Probably
> something to do with the video card driver, which I didn't install, my
> brother did.
> 
> I am bemused. I thought Linux didn't do that :)
> 
> No big problem, unless it starts happening frequently.