reducing distribution CD count

Dag Wieers dag at wieers.com
Wed Mar 2 01:45:22 UTC 2005


On Tue, 1 Mar 2005, Dave Jones wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 01:24:58AM +0100, Dag Wieers wrote:
>  > On Tue, 1 Mar 2005, Jamie Zawinski wrote:
>  > 
>  > > Also, more people run screen savers than tuxracer, so that's where the
>  > > video driver crashes tend to occur.  Then they blame me and I am sad.
>  > 
>  > Hehe, I've had several people complain about 'random' crashes, usually 
>  > when they arrived at work in the morning or came back from coffee. All of 
>  > them related to 3D screensavers :)
>  > 
>  > Maybe disabling 3D screensavers by default (and/or a warning about the 
>  > potential to crash when people open the screensaver configuration) would 
>  > reduce the uncomfortable (unstable) feeling people got when using Linux in 
>  > these cases.
> 
> Or how about just fixing the drivers so they don't lock up ?

People first have to know why it crashes before they know where to report 
it. The anecdotes I gave was to indicate that people usually don't know 
why it crashed and in return have a general feeling of unstability.

I would like to make sure that 1) these people don't have an uncomfortable 
feeling and 2) understand that enabling 3D has a potential to crash a 
system, so people might realise why it happens and where to report it.

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