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From: bcr@bohr.physics.purdue.edu (Bill C. Riemers)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: SUMMARY: FreeBSD vs. Linux
Message-ID: <13560@dirac.physics.purdue.edu>
Date: 13 Nov 93 14:21:42 GMT
References: <CGC6nH.J08@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> <16C841041BS85.U001295@HNYKUN11.URC.KUN.NL> <1993Nov12.203828.8233@unlv.edu>
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Subject: Re: SUMMARY: FreeBSD vs. Linux
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.386bsd.questions
In-Reply-To: <1993Nov12.203828.8233@unlv.edu>
References: <2bs065$1gd@news.cs.tulane.edu> <CGC6nH.J08@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> <16C841041BS85.U001295@HNYKUN11.URC.KUN.NL>
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In article <1993Nov12.203828.8233@unlv.edu> you write:
>In article <16C841041BS85.U001295@HNYKUN11.URC.KUN.NL> U001295@HNYKUN11.URC.KUN.NL (R. Schalk) writes:
>I can name one thing you can do in FreeBSD and cannot do in Linux:
>
>Easily crash the system as a normal user!
>
>(use crashme)
Sounds like a challenge. Lets see here
su bcr
Password:
1% <VVVVVVEEEEEEERRRRRRROOOOOOMMMMMMMM!!!!!!VVVVVEEEEERRRRROOOOOMMMMMM!!!!!>
System going down for maintainance; bounce, bounce
<VVVVVVEEEEERRRRRRROOOOMMMMMMMMM!!!!!!!!VVVVVVVEEEEEERRRRRROOOOOMMMMMM!!!!!>
ThE SY Tem I BeIN Hut DoWN
<VVVVVVEEEEERRRRRRROOOOOMMMMMM!!!!!!ZZZZZZEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!>
NoV YoU CAN UrN Off tHE PoWer!!!
<ZZZZZZZZEEEEEEEE!!!!!>
There you have it. Another Linux machine crashed with just normal user
access and a portable chainsaw.
Bill