Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 13th Aug 2008 23:50 UTC
An interesting article has been making its way around the internet the past few days, titled "Top 10 Usability Highs Of Mac OS". Mac OS X indeed does some things very, very right, just like many other operating systems and graphical environments do some things very, very right. The issue with the list of the article in question is that many of the items on the list are not exactly examples of "Usability Highs" at all.
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2005-07-20
Linux is awful about kernel panics while running graphics. Since I run bleeding edge -mm series kernels on my laptop I have seen many of them.
What happens is that the graphical desktop just stops. No mouse movement, no screen updates. The Caps Lock key starts to blink and that is about it. There is no way to switch back to a text console to view the kernel panic.
If you have configured a serial or network console then you get the panic message as output, but that is the only way.
I haven't used it myself but I've read that kdump can get around this. kdump works by kexec'ing a special kernel which is then used to copy the kernel panic and a memory image to disk. This kdump kernel can also reinit the graphics hardware, sometimes.
Edited 2008-08-14 01:21 UTC