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Loren M. Lang writes:

> Whenever this happens I can always ssh in and kill X from another
> machine if it's just X hanging and not the system.

Hmm ... I don't know if I ever tried that.

> Now X can still kill the whole machine since it's directly
> accessing the hardware, but usually the system is still
> running fine.

The words "directly accessing the hardware" send a chill down my spine.
I already have to suffer with the instability and insecurity of Windows
caused by precisely that in the GUI; I certainly don't want to make the
same sacrifice on FreeBSD (or any other OS) just to see pretty pictures
on the screen, when the machine is not a desktop.

-- 
Anthony