[ale] Suicide Linux

[Geoffrey]

Brandon Wood wrote:
> Saw this as I was going through my feeds. I'd fail in a heartbeat...

As far as I'm concerned, it's a test of your typing abilities, because I 
know my first mistake would simply be a typo.

> 
> 
>     Think you've mastered Linux? Prove it, with Suicide Linux
>     <http://www.pheedcontent.com/click.phdo?i=85c70b674c8cec706fcc78a3a6ee79b7>
> 
> from Download Squad 
> <http://www.google.com/reader/view/feed/http%3A%2F%2Fwww.downloadsquad.com%2Frss.xml> by Jay 
> Hathaway
> Linux gurus who pride themselves on their skills with the command line 
> would finally have a way to prove it if one guy's wacky idea came to 
> fruition. Yes, it's Suicide Linux <http://qntm.org/suicide>, where any 
> unrecognized command is parsed as "rm -rf /" ... that's Linux for "your 
> hard drive's content go boom." Sorry, no helpful spelling correction in 
> Bash, just boom. This concept popped up on Sam Hughes' qntm.org 
> <http://qntm.org> last year, and has been making the rounds of the web 
> again this week.
> 
> Why would you ever want to play Suicide Linux? Well, it's certainly not 
> practical, but it makes more sense as a game than as an actual operating 
> system. See how many days you can make it without erasing all your 
> files! Hell, I probably wouldn't even be able to survive Suicide Mac OS 
> X for more than a week (sometimes I flub my Quicksilver commands when 
> I'm tired, okay?!), so Suicide Linux sounds to me like a test invented 
> by an overdramatic movie villain. 
> 
> Unfortunately (or maybe fortunately), I couldn't find an actual download 
> of a Suicide Linux distro, but it seems like it wouldn't be that 
> difficult to create ... especially for someone who could use it. 
> 
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Until later, Geoffrey

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