Re: Slackware vs the others

>     This happened often enough that I'm sure the machine was locking
>     up.  Video playback stopped.  So did music. Any game I might have
>     been playing stopped.  It wouldn't respond to pings. 
>     Ctrl+alt+delete did nothing.  Ctrl+f1 did nothing.  Trust me.  It
>     locked up.  Slackware just works.  Even though I have to compile
>     some programs and this takes some time, in the end, they work.  I
>     won't mess with the other distros.  Also the others had trouble
>     identifying and configuring either the audio, video or both. 
>     Kubuntu would ID the monitor and give me 1600x900, but I had to
>     mess with the audio.  Debian would get the audio right, but it
>     acted as if the monitor was 4x3.  The others had varying
>     problems.  Once I got the audio and video working, I'd install vlc
>     and there was trouble with it playing audio correctly and resuming
>     audio playback after pausing and unpausing.

>     When I installed slackware and ran it the first time, the video
>     was correctly configures and so was the audio.  When I installed
>     vlc, it played audio when resuming playback after pausing.  I'll
>     stick with slackware as long as I have this machine.  When I
>     eventually get another, I'll try the others again.  I really liked
>     being able to type in apt-get install whatever and have it running
>     a minute or two later.  But that doesn't do me much good if I
>     can't watch a Firefly episode all the way through.

>     I'm sure slackware isn't for everybody, but I'm glad it's there.

>     Derek

>     On 01/07/2013 05:57 PM, Brian Cluff wrote:
>>     Just curious; are you sure that it was actually locking up?  It
>>     might be that something was making the X server become
>>     unresponsive, but the machine, as a whole, was just fine.
>>     Recently my machine was "locking up" a lot, but it would only do
>>     it when I was listing to music.  It turned out that there is a
>>     bug in Amarok that if it tries to play an MP3 file that has 0
>>     size. that it would crash, and it turns out that if it crashes
>>     after the screen has blanked that things go bonkers and nothing
>>     responds.

>>     ...but it turns out that I could still ssh into my machine from
>>     another computer and investigate what was broken. Turns out that
>>     when I went to recover a bunch of MP3 files from some CDs that
>>     were about 20 years old that when it couldn't recover the file it
>>     just wrote out the name of the file with nothing in it.

>>     In any case, I've found that Linux almost never locks up, it just
>>     becomes unresponsive from the desktop, to the point that
>>     CTRL+ALT+F1 won't ever do anything for you, but ssh/telnet will
>>     almost always get you into the machine and let you identify and
>>     kill what is causing the problem.

>>     The only reason I mention this is that is you find that Slackware
>>     won't do it for you in the long run, there may be hope in getting
>>     one of your previous distros to work for you.

>>     Brian Cluff

>>     On 01/07/2013 02:42 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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>     Patrick Moore

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