[ale] Suicide Linux

[Greg Freemyer]

Easy to implement, Scary to contemplate.

On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 9:53 AM, Brandon Wood <woody at 2143.net> wrote:
> Saw this as I was going through my feeds. I'd fail in a heartbeat...
>
> 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.
>
> 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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