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Story: Desktop Linux wins plaudits for stability
Posted by: Anonymous (Friday 11 March 2005, 3:01 AM)
Yup. They also use IO, scheduling etc. And those live in the kernel too. On Windows and Linux. But since we're talking GUI, XWindows (unlike Windows) allows apps to access hardware directly. How's that for stability?
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Story: Desktop Linux wins plaudits for stability
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Right. Because Windows applications run in Kernel... Anonymous -
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"But since we're talking GUI, XWind... Philip Stephens
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Not surprising that he got good stability from Lin... Anonymous
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I'm using a stripped-down, fully patched win2... The Mitch
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Desktop Linux will never succeed until s... Brian H
