[KLUG Members] Linux Freeze-up

[Eric Beversluis]

I thought I remembered that one of the supposed benefits of Linux was
that you didn't every HAVE TO shut it down, that the "blue screen of
death" did not apply.

Yet I just had my machine freeze up (in Mozilla, when opening a pdf
file), and all I could do was to force a shutdown by powering off. I
could move or minimize the window or even access the programs panel at
the bottom of the window.

Is there some other way to deal with this problem that wouldn't require
shutting the whole machine down?

EB