Messages in this thread | | | From | (Larry McVoy) | Subject | Re: GGI Project Unhappy On Linux | Date | Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:04:12 -0800 |
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: If you need X then you need KGI.
I speak only for myself, but I suspect that all the other people that run X daily without it crashing would agree with me.
I don't need KGI. I'm running X on everything from $5 garage sale Trident ISA cards to 8MB #9 PCI cards and in th 4+ years that I've been running it on Linux, it's never crashed. Not once.
It may well be that there are some (many?) cards out there that make X crash systems. But I don't have any, and obviously there are a lot of other cards that don't make the system crash. If this were not true, X & Linux would be a huge problem.
It may well be that I don't run the apps that cause X to crash. But there again, neither do a lot of other people, by far the vast majority. If that weren't true, you'd see the world screaming about it. Go look on dejanews and come back with the list of people complaining about Linux and X crashing. (I did this by the way, and found very few hits.)
Please don't misunderstand me. I have no feelings about KGI one way or the other. But I do know that /I/ don't need it. And I suspect that the vast majority of Linux users feel the same way.
That doesn't mean it is bad and doesn't mean that it is good. I have no opinion on that. All I know is that the statement quoted above is false for me.
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