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Linux Kernel Security, Again
Jason Miller, 2005-03-16

It's a sad day when an ancient fork bomb attack can still take down most of the latest Linux distributions.

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simple fork bomb? 2005-03-17
Anonymous
"No, they weren't."

Then don't blame the distribution or the kernel.

Vendors DON'T have any way to know how you want to use the system. They can ask basic questions - "do you want Server, Workstation, user, minimum..."

Most people on a workstation take responsibility for overload/oversubscr...

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