Linux creator Torvalds switches to an Apple Mac 168 plus 17

I have 3 here.

One crashes constantly. That's been tracked to hardware.

One crashed sometimes (see below), especially switching between the linux box and it via KVM more than a handful of times, or running too many VNC sessions from it, which was my preferred way to work with it. By "too many VNC sessions" I'm talking about running one session and logging into it, killing the login, going back to it later, lather, rinse, repeat. I don't do either now because I swapped it with the one Sinister Jr was using, which is the first one I mentioned.

One was beginning to crash a little more frequently than in the past. It was once every few weeks (usually a couple of months or more), then became a little over a week between crashes, then finally started crashing most days, though not every day. "Most" being greater than 50% of the time. I reinstalled it from scratch yesterday because I wanted to make the drive larger. It's only been a day, but no crashes so far.

I abused the hell out of the one that crashed via KVM-VNC (one of the things I love to do to nearly all of my machines-OSes) and it held up to that. It just failed on the other stuff. Since little Sin has been using it he's only had a couple of crashes.

The one Mrs. Midget uses couldn't have any easier life in anyone else's hands. She's about as gentle with it as anyone can possibly be with a machine. The previous install lasted about 14 months.

They *do* crash. Some more than others. I'm not even figuring the hardware problems in because *any* hardware can run into those kinds of troubles.

-- Nimda: An original Microsoft web crawler.