reasons why Ubuntu 9.10 crashes so frequently

[sdavmor]

On 03/02/2010 03:58 PM, Steve Flynn wrote:
> On 02/03/10 23:45, steve reilly wrote:
>
>> thats pretty much a stab in the dark trying to answer that
>> question without more info.  hardware?, ubuntu version?, logs?
>
> Yup - however the easiest thing the OP can check is that his ram is
> good. Without ascertaining that, you can read logs for hours and
> still not be able to determine the cause of the issue.
>
> OP is on 9.10
>
>> ive been using different flavors of ubuntu or debian for no less
>> than 5 years on dozens of computers and never experienced a
>> crash due to *ubuntu*.  I would check your hardware as suggested
>> above, most often these problems are hardware related. i smell a
>> 5 letter word that begins with t.
>
> Linux since 1996, roughly. Experienced hundreds of kernel panics,
> core dumps, oops'es and just plain weirdness.
>
> Not sure what the 5 letter word beginning with T is though.

He means troll.

Except when I've been alpha (and sometimes) beta testing Ubuntu, I'm
never had it crash because of the O/S. It's always been something to
do with my iron.

I have Karmic on several dozen machines; desktops, laptops, servers.
It's a very stable environment.
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