11 Feb
2011
11 Feb
'11
5:47 p.m.
On Fri, 11 Feb 2011, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
They have *everything* to do. Look, I *said* this is OT, but since you insist, the overwhelmingly *bad* design decision was to put the GUI into ring 0, instead of the way Windows 3, and X on *Nix, and *everybody* else did, resulting in a GUI error bringing down the *entire* system.
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I thought Vista brought that to be much more inline with how it is on linux.
It's still the case that a graphics driver error on linux can take out the entire system, so it's not like linux is some sort of gold standard on this front.
jh