The only time I've ever seen Linux lock up hard was from CPU failures or 
bad memory.  Had this on a home machine - I replaced the CPU  cooler and 
it never locked up again. On work machines I would get the red screen of 
death and it would tell me what CPU failed.

Regards,

George Toft

On 1/7/2013 2:42 PM, Derek Trotter wrote:
> Some of you might remember of the last few months me posting about my 
> system locking up running linux. This last Saturday marked my system 
> running slackware for a whole week without locking up once.  Before 
> this I had tried Kubuntu, Mint, Debian, Fedora and Centos.
>
> I'm guessing Slackware has something the other distros I've tried 
> don't or the others have something Slackware doesn't. There has to be 
> some difference.  Any ideas what it is?
>
> Thanks
> Derek
> -- 
> "I get my copy of the daily paper, look at the obituaries page, and if I'm not there, I carry on as usual."
>
> Patrick Moore
>
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