Re: has your squeeze ever crashed?
On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 11:55 PM, Long Wind <longwind2009@gmail.com> wrote:
> linux is stable, or is it?
Sure, but there is difference between stable and "never crashes,
ever". Namely one is a real thing, and the other does not and cannot
exist, it is purely theoretical.
Even with a provably correct program (and we cannot prove anything so
complex as a full featured OS kernel, much less desktop, etc),
hardware could fail in one way or another... a cosmic ray could hit a
memory cell or a cpu transistor, and it could crash. You can add error
handling to try to deal with all sorts of errors but you can't catch
everything, and the error handling code has bugs of its own.
Cheers,
Kelly Clowers
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