der Mouse said:

>That may be why.  I had "older" machines that were stable too, but only
>the lightly loaded ones.  Does it survive a "make build" (or build.sh,
>if that was there in 1.5.2)?

>I never saw the _kernel_ crash, only userland processes.  And in some
>circumstances, you may not even notice, or write it off as a random
>application failure (I did that with the X server at the time of the
>crashes I mentioned; it was only later, in retrospect, that I realized
>that X on other machines wasn't doing it).

I have an SS1 that went from 1.5 to 1.5.3 by make build at every increment
of the OS. I use it as a light mailing list machine. No core dumps, but
I don't run X on the box.
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