Slackware vs the others

[Stephen]

This is why I always install ssh even on a desktop I intend to use in the
same room.
On Jan 7, 2013 5:57 PM, "Brian Cluff" <brian at snaptek.com> 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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