[CentOS] Strange Kernel for Centos 5.5

[John Hodrien]

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