[ale] Suicide Linux

Michael H. Warfield mhw at WittsEnd.com
Tue Feb 23 14:30:24 EST 2010


On Tue, 2010-02-23 at 14:53 +0000, Brandon Wood wrote:
> Saw this as I was going through my feeds. I'd fail in a heartbeat...
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> Think you've mastered Linux? Prove it, with Suicide Linux
> from Download Squad 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, 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 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. 

Wow...  That's like the BOFH (Bastard Operator From Hell) gone wild.

> 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. 

Mike
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