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Originally Posted by gisborne View Post
I don't see why. I can understand perhaps needing to reboot if out of memory (although I'd say it should kill an application first).

But a Linux box ought to be a Linux box, and ought not to crash. Mine often doesn't reboot; it just locks up, unusuable. This has to be either a bad driver, or a core service locking up. Either way, Nokia needs to fix certain bad code, and this thing can stay up like my Linux desktop.
The N800 and 770 can't possibly have the resources or be as robust as full-fledged Macs or PCs. The architecture is also newer.

That said, I'm all for the causes of all crashes being researched and corrected.