rimmer333

Think you've mastered Linux? Prove it, with Suicide Linux (Download Squad)

Feb 20th 2010 3:10AM First of all you have to work under root account for this - or else you end up with just your home emptied, which is frustrating, but not lethal. Working under root is learned by many as a big no-no, much greater than being careful to the paths you type in the commands. Second, if you read the linked article, you'll see that the main purpose of this 'game' was to negate the usefulness of a particular feature of particular distro - some 'pathname correction', which I've never stumbled upon (seen Fedoras, RedHats, Ubuntus of course, Free/Net/OpenBSDs). There are mistakes of a much higher level that can lead to linux-based chaos. I think, if there'd be Suicide Linux distro as a game, it would be based on a misconfigured shell, and the only way to win - okay, the other way to win, as the first would be not to play - would be to configure shell properly. The right configuration nowadays is a much better skill than uber-precise typing.