Linux vs Blue Screen of Death

[Dan Mann <dbm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello all,

  Let me ask a couple of questions to the list.  Why does Windows NT blue
screen so often, and Linux does not?  Both are protected mode operating
systems, so what gives?  Does anyone have any real semi-concrete ideas
here?  I would expect an app to crash, but not the entire OS.

OK, now that we have admitted that NT does indeed blue screen heavily
(usually while using MS Office, go figure)  What did MS do to 2000 that
prevents it?

If this were happening to me while using Linux I would think of hardware
failure.

What can I do to diagnose those nasty bsod's?

On a side note, does anybody know why Netscape6 in windows 2000 takes up
less memory  than under Xwindows?  this is very frustrating to  me.  Is it
in the architechture of the Xserver?  Is it because windows uses a
more proprietary .dll and linux uses multiple libs that vary from
distro to distro, making it nescesary to add these components at
compile time?  Does anybody think that one reason that windows is less 
stable is because the 'gui' is running right there with the kernel (vs
Xwindows, which is a normal process that can be
terminated without bringing down the system)?

Please shed some light,

DBM