Re: Linux vs Blue Screen of Death

["Dan Downs" <retnuh@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I just spent the last day trying to install Back Office 4.5. By the time it
finally installed I saw the BSOD about 25 times. The last few times really
annoyed me. It was starting up fine, then I uninstalled the DHCP Relay
Agent, one reboot later, and before I could type in my password BSOD. After
about 4 more it finally started and let me know that a device didn't start
up correctly. Gee thanks for crashing 4 times to figure that out. It ended
up being the NIC driver, and a process of figuring out the correct order on
when to install various services. I really appreciated that protected mode
kernel. Thanks NT! ;-)

It makes me wonder if there's any exception handling in there anywhere. Load
a nic driver, oops it failed, don't show any errors, query dhcp, oops the
nic isn't working, better kill myself so the user doesn't lose any important
data, better do a memory dump now just in case the user wants to parse
through a good 100meg file.

I have yet to see linux die because of a bad kernel. I have had to hard boot
a machine once, but that's because both hard drives stopped, but the kernel
was still up and going, I just couldn't run anything.

Dan Downs