Is Linux less vulnerable to OC instability

[jahjahbinks]

I am not talking about any dramatic instability. Suppose a tiny bit of instability due to overclocking that show up as unexpected system freeze in Windows, will Linux alleviate this behavior?

[Ugly n Grey]

not really, operating systems of any kind normally react badly to unstable hardware. It just gets evidenced differently. I find anything goes weird with my Unix boxes and I end up spending half the night repairing file systems. Windows just tends to die and give up...

[Okda]

for me using Gentoo ( lots of compiling ) i figured out that linux can detect instability while the same settings are very very very stable on windows

[jahjahbinks]

so stability-wise, there is no reason to go Linux, am i correct?

[Ugly n Grey]

Linux/BSD/Unix or any other OS have differences in application stabilty (some are definitely better than others) but nothing can fix unstable hardware (maybe DOS or CP/M LOL )