On Fri, 11 Feb 2011, m.roth at 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. > <snip> 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