Re: "Red Hat recommends Windows for consumers"

From: Florentin Ionescu (florentin_ionescu_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 11/08/03

  • Next message: Andrés Roldán: "Re: LI then hang at boot"
    Date: Sat, 8 Nov 2003 12:40:43 -0800 (PST)
    To: Debian-User <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
    
    

    PCMCIA module for LinkSys card on my laptop (2.4.22-ac4 kernel) and
    modules that can _not_ be un-loaded (like smbfs mount if you disconnect
    :-) ) made me reboot too - but - my understanding is that in 2.6x
    kernel you can force to unload kernel modules.

    Cheers,
     Florentin.

    On Thu, 6 Nov 2003, Ron Johnson wrote :

    » Date: Thu, 06 Nov 2003 20:22:55 -0600
    » From: Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>
    » To: Debian-User <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
    » Subject: Re: "Red Hat recommends Windows for consumers"
    » Resent-Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2003 20:23:00 -0600 (CST)
    » Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org
    »
    » On Thu, 2003-11-06 at 20:09, Paul Johnson wrote:
    » > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
    » > Hash: SHA1
    » >
    » > On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 08:27:22PM +0100, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote:
    » > > OTOH: Yesterday I was told by Linux folks that the sound problems on
    » > > Linux that I have from time to time might need a simple restart of the
    » > > system. Which was a surprise for me as I thought this sort of "fix"
    » > > is something I had left behind after moving to Linux ...
    » >
    » > The only times you need to reboot that I've experienced: 1) New kernel
    » > you wanna try out. 2) Physical flaw in the hardware or internal
    » > hardware needing a power cycle. 3) Power failure.
    »
    » Don't forget:
    » kernel bug
    »
    »

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