[djmcmath]

In the interest of being completely apolitical on the most political day of the decade, I thought I'd post a random computer question. I'm a Linux guy, down deep. I was running FreeBSD back when I had to borrow somebody else's high speed connection to download the whole thing onto 3" floppies. I remember tweaking my .clock settings and griping about the CL5430 series of cards that wouldn't let you probe to get the clock settings. (sigh) But windows is just so much easier, when I'm busy and don't have time to tinker, so I've been running Windows XP for quite a while on my home box.

Well, recently a friend bought Suse 9.1, and found it to be outstanding, so I figured I'd have another go at it. Did the install, which was very friendly, and found that my machine began locking up randomly while running Suse. Now my machine is very reliable. I can think of like ... maybe twice in the last year that my machine has misbehaved under Windows. But running Suse, she locks up pretty routinely -- like 5-15 minutes of run-time, and she just stops responding. No mouse movement, no keyboard activity, no nothing. The lockups don't seem to be tied into any particular activity -- sometimes it'll die while I'm using it, sometimes it'll die when I'm just watching it, or while the screensaver is up, or while it's playing music.

Any thoughts? I'd love to convert back into a full-time Linux user, but if Suse is just going to make my computer unusable, I'm not interested. Any ideas from the pros? Stuff I ought to check?


Thanks,

Dan