Re: Why are Linux Applications So Unstable?
From: James McIninch (james.mcininch.nospam_at_comcast.net)
Date: 03/26/05
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To: Susie <susie_wang_1955@yahoo.com> Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2005 21:10:30 -0500
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Your description does suggest hardware issues. The fact that it runs WinXP
just fine is a poor indicator as each use the hardware quite differently.
For example, Linux is more sensitive to RAM issues. In you case, it's just
as likely that you are using an outdated NVidia graphics driver or perhaps
a driver not issued by NVidia. Just like under Windows, a driver not
properly matched to the hardware will torpedo performance and introduce
instability.
I've never seen K3B lock up a machine (locking up the entire machine is very
definitely are hardware or resource usage issue; Linux applications
themselves cannot crash the system). Widespread instability would be the
same. If, however, it's only the X11 GUI, then it's possibly a hardware
fault in the video card or issue between the driver configuration and the
card (for example, if the amount of memory on the card is misconfigured in
your X11 setup, or perhaps your card doesn't like NVidia's implementation
of some of the acceleration feature under Linux). If you are not using
NVidia's own drivers, or their most recent, download new ones.
As far as applications -- Linux is coming from the technical and server side
of things. If you want application services, finite element analysis,
genomic sequence analysis tools, cinema-grade 3D animation, etc. Linux is
your puppy. If you are looking to run software from Martha Steware living
to help you pick the right shade of mauve for your drapes... don't hold
your breath (it's coming, just slowly).
Linux apps a comaparatively easy to write, so, if you have an itch why not
simply write whatever you need. At the very least, find someone else that's
interested and let them know what they should aim for.
Susie wrote:
> I have been using Linux for about one month now and one thing I have
> discovered is that Linux applications tend to be very unstable. For
> example kaffeine crashes all the time. Mplayer slows to a crawl and
> loses sync between video and sound when I open more than two copies at
> the same time. Amarok skips mp3's all the time. Knode just crashes and
> disappears from the screen at times for no reason.
> Mozilla firefox seems slugish compared to the Windows version.
> Konqueror crashes at times when I try to copy a large number of files,
> (mp3) from one drive to another.
> K3b refuses to burn an audio CD and locks up the entire computer when
> I try.
> Openoffice refuses to print certain documents properly even though
> they seem to display on the screen fine.
> My USB thumb drive will sometimes not mount yet other times works
> fine.
>
> Before you blame my hardware or the version of Linux I am using my
> computer runs Windows XP just fine with no problems and it is an Abit
> system with a P4 3 gig CPU in it and 1G memory. I have DMA turned on
> for all drives and the video card is Nvidia something or other I
> forget.
> I have tried suse, mandrake and ubuntu and experienced similar results
> but with different applications on each which leads me to believe that
> Linux applications are just buggy.
> Linux needs more CSS software that is professionally developed and
> tested because the programs that come with Linux distributions are
> obviously not being tested by anyone. And yes I know there are good
> applications for Linux like Apache and slrn and so forth but at the
> same time, the gui based applications seem to need a lot of work
> before I would use them in a production enviornment.
> Openoffice for example is nowhere near as good in quality as Microsoft
> Office is. Maybe in time Linux will improve but for now a solid
> operating system surrounded by buggy applications is not going to
> cause people to move from Windows to Linux.
> Susie
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