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After getting all nice and cozy on a new world named Fedora Core 8, I decided to do some devving. Everything was going nicely, compiling, linking, and with no conflicts from taking my code from a Windows system to a Nix system.

But then... out of the dark depths of the Linux Kernel came a foul beast. It struck my code down and in its rampage, killed itself in the process.

When the dust had settled, I found there was nothing left, just a lowly kernel panic with cryptic symbols plaguing the screen.

Upon reboot, all was null.

Now I am back on my Windows XP Pro machine, minus a days worth of code =(.

01000101 wrote:When the dust had settled, I found there was nothing left, just a lowly kernel panic with cryptic symbols plaguing the screen.

Upon reboot, all was null.

What "all"? It is next to impossible for a kernel panic to wipe out your hard drive. I've never heard of such a thing.

It's possible that if the kernel didn't sync it's buffers some critical files could get damaged, but certainly not the entire disk... and I've never had that happen to me.

Plus, a panic doesn't leave "cryptic symbols" on the screen. If you were on the console it'll just print a message and hang up, in X it'll just hang up.

Oh, and s/Fedora Core/Fedora/ - the name changed back when 7 was released

I meant, it wouldnt boot back up, the OS was shot. I couldnt get even a shell.

Boot a LiveCD and do fsck on the root partition

nah, I'm just going to re-install Kubuntu 7.10 on it.. or maybe OSX. It's not my primary development machine, its more of my generic machine to use when my dev machine is doing something that takes a long time.

What did you do to it?
It wouldn't kill itself.
Crypic Symbols?

-JL

my gawd people, it was a heavily embellished story. Stop picking it apart so literally.

I have no idea what I did to be honest. The only thing I can think of is a bad mouse driver because my mouse kept cutting out (RAZER DeathAdder), but then again, aren't drivers run in a user-level ring in linux? I had the OS check the CD for pre-installation issues, but it gave it a clean bill of health.

And people are "seriously" going to trust your operating system with network security?

You must be joking.... this entire topic is just sad.

yeah, silly me, a primarily windows user not willing to spend more time on a kernel-panic than I have to.

I don't see the issue with that?

And this was posted out of sheer boredom as something to make fun of Linux, something ALL OS's should aspire to be lol.

Brynet-Inc wrote:And people are "seriously" going to trust your operating system with network security?

You must be joking.... this entire topic is just sad.

Ah, but according to Linux mythology that is what Windows is supposed to do, you see. Forever crashing and displaying a BSOD. Actually, I have never seen one.

never seen a BSOD?!
Oh my <BLEEPING!> god...

Agreed, i don't see them as often as i used too after XP sp1 was released, and i haven't really got enough experience with vista to comment on that, but as for 95, 98, 2k and me i have seen my share.

01000101 wrote:aren't drivers run in a user-level ring in linux?

Some, but most run in the kernel as loadable modules. Linux is a modular monolithic kernel (seeing as you're on a OSDev forum you should know that ). An example of a real-world microkernel is Minix.

I've seen windowz crash once per 3 days.

I have never seen Linux crash.

-JL

piranha wrote:I've seen windowz crash once per 3 days.

I have never seen Linux crash.

-JL

I've had drivers for my old laptop's ethernet card lock up the kernel, whereas windows 95 installed fine on it and the drivers worked perfectly once I downloaded them (which wasn't nearly as hard as setting up drivers in Linux was).

Anecdotal evidence, Woo!