Sorry to break in on this high-minded discussion,
but has anyone found linux on an Athlon64 machine slightly unstable?
I compiled linux-2.6.12 a couple of days ago,
under Fedora-4 (x86_64 distribution) and it seems to crash
(or become completely uncommunicative) every 6--8 hours.
Incidentally (this is a very low-level question)
if I stop the machine when this happens by pressing the power button
for a few seconds, it doesn't start again properly;
I have to switch it off at the back.
Why is this? And is there anything I could do?
This is a Lidl Targa machine -
I'm afraid it runs under Windows-XP most of the time.
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