Re: GGI and cli/sti in X

Pavel Machek (pavel@elf.ucw.cz)
Fri, 27 Mar 1998 14:33:47 +0100


Hi!

> in any case, Linus's conservative approach to GGI is excellent;
> most people are indeed *not* religiously opposed to X. personally,
> I've _never_ had an X bug cause video problems or a crash,
> and I've been using Linux and X for more than a couple years.

Do this for me: Limit your mem to 16Meg, make your machine swap a
bit. Now switch consoles from/into X and do it fast. Be creative and
you'll see complete freeze or at least complete mess-up of video.

Pavel

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