This all brings up an interesting point about a targetted market.
All the different distros are trying to be hammered onto the desktop as an alternative to Windows. If this is the case then perhaps when they specify the option to install a desktop they should create this "sane" limit.

The point is they're tyring to push it out to the average user desktop as an alternative to an OS that is already established, and has a stranglehold, because of it's limitations. Try to see how many instances of IE you can open on an XP box. It stops you before you can crash it. If they are going to give you the option to create the dumbed-downb version for the average desktop user then perhaps they need to investigate a method of limiting max proc.

As far as servers go, I firmly believe it's the admin's responsibility to ensure his box stays online. You're never going to work out every single bug, and not to mention there are far worse bugs out there than this, but you can and should be able to lock this down and make it safe.

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