On Mon, 28 Feb 2000, Greg Olszewski wrote about, Re: Kernel Panic After Clean
Installation ( RH6.0 ) - Diff. Distribution ?:
> > > If I crash my machine while trying, so what.
> >
> > I doubt you will be able to crash the system, you might have more success
> > in mucking up but really crashing a linux system is not really so easy as
> > doing the same in Windows.
> >
> It's pretty easy to crash a linux box if you're root. Ever tried
> dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/mem
> for fun? Brings down a box *quick*. :-)
> (don't try this at home unless everything is mounted read-only).
Huum, yes i know that, but your avaerage Joe Nwebie dont, what i meant by
playing on his box he is not going to break it, and normally speaking he
wont be able to crash it.
> I guess it's just one more reason that people shouldn't wander around as
> root all the time.
No one should really "play" as root. ;-)
>
> have fun
>
> greg
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