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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? 2005-03-18
Stephen Samuel
One of the problems with Linux is that it is so scalable. Limits that wouldn't sweat a 3Gz P4 with 4GB of ram would reduce my 200Mz P2 with 128MB of ram to a quivering pile of silicon, but I can install onto both from the same CD.

Similarly, limits that seemed reasonable on my P2 might have peop...

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