pudge's Journal: Mac OS Crashes

My lone Mac OS box, an iMac Rev. B which I use daily for ircle, Mozilla, NiftyTelnet, BBEdit, and MacPerl, crashed today for the first time in about three months. Because, you know, Mac OS is far less stable than Mac OS X. ;-)

3 Months?

[bsharitt]

Wow thats pretty good for the old Mac OS. While I haven't had it crash a much as some other operating systems *cough*Windows 95/98*cough*, I don't think I've had it goin for that long. But I've had OS X for 7 months, it's only crashed once, and that was bocause I purposly invoked a bug that caused a kernel panic.

Re:3 Months?

[pudge]

I have had more kernel panics than that, but even if I hadn't, I consider any broken behavior that forces a restart to be a crash, which on Mac OS X has included network failure, runaway system processes that can't be killed, file sharing/iDisk freezing up the system (usually it is just the Finder, but on occasion the whole system), etc.

I get something like this maybe once every couple of weeks on my main system, a PowerBook G4.

I have to log out and log back in even more often than that, especially on my wife's iBook, where it seems to be the only solution to Mail.app freezing (force quit and restart of the app doesn't do it).

Of course, my use of Mac OS is limited to a few relatively safe uses, but ... that's what the OS was basically designed for. A client OS, running a few programs. And it does a damn fine job at it.