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RE: I am not impressed with Debian so far.




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Have a stable day. Use Linux.

On Tue, 8 Jun 1999, Patrick Colbeck wrote:

> Hey, my hard drive did the sudden thrashing thing last night too. Its
> never done it before (well it has in NT but not in Linux). All I was
> doing was reading mail remotely over a dialup line using xemacs in a
> kterm in KDE 1.1.1 (from snowcrash). It stopped after a while (about 4 
> minutes) and has been fine since. This never happened before in RedHat 
> or with Hamm. Is this a KDE thing perhaps ?. I am running on an AST M
> series Laptop which has 48Mb ram and a 2GB Linux partition with about
> 1300MB free and a 92MB swap file.
> 
> Pat

I don't think it's a "KDE thing". I think it is a cron thing (or an
anacron thing, or whatever scheduler you are using.)

-Ben 


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