Bill White wrote: > > You've never used Windows ME have you? > > I once interviewed with someone who said that "If you don't reboot > Windows 10 times a day you aren't working hard enough." Of course, > when I worked on Linux device drivers I had the same thoughts.
That's fair enough... I mean, device drivers are part of the kernel, so when they crash (as one would when you're still debugging it) they'd take the rest of the kernel with them. > I think that Linux boots up faster than Windows, so it's maybe > an advantage. 2.4 boots quite a bit quicker than 2.2 did, but I have a feeling that Windows is quicker still. Of course, the golden rule of optimisation is that you optimise the most common task...
