Beta 8.10 released

[Derek Broughton]

Brendan wrote:

> On Thursday 09 October 2008, Derek Broughton wrote:
>> Irrelevant.  Even Microsoft can get something right eventually, and I
>> don't
>> get XP crashes.  Ever.
> 
> I get them, and you don't. How is this discussion helpful?

It's not at all.  You're trashing an OS for no good reason at all.
> 
>> > Honestly, your good experience does not cancel out my bad one.
>>
>> Obviously not, but by all accounts, XP is as stable for most users as a
>> Linux system.
> 
> All accounts? 

Absolutely.

> No, I don't think so. Without data backing you, it's 
> impossible to even suggest that.
> You don't hear people bragging about XP's stability under load, do you?
> No.

Yes, actually, I do.

>> > Kmail crashed once a month ago.
>>
>> Kmail/kontact can be crashed fairly easily by using IMAP folders and
>> trying to move messages around while something else is moving the
>> messages around
> 
> We already established that I do not use IMAP. Read the thread.

Now who's being unhelpful.  I'm merely establishing that it _is_ fairly easy
to crash kmail.  I've also said that I don't consider crashing an
application to be on a par with killing the OS.
-- 
derek