Overclockix 3.7 Released 148
prostoalex writes "Overclockix 3.7 is released, available via bittorrent. It's a live Linux CD with a bunch of utilities for 'torturing' the PC hardware, hence the name. The authors seem to take a reasonable approach on graphical desktop, cutting out what they consider unnecessary eye candy, but leaving in the tools essential for effective GUI. 'Some new package highlights such as knoppix firewall, vlc, superkaramba, KDE 3.3.1, newer 2.6.7 kernel, NX client, and many more', the site says."
Re:Kinda late... (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Cutting out eye candy?? (Score:3, Insightful)
Some degree of familiarity to make it usable by non-Linux users? (i.e. Windows users who found it and want to play with it.)
Re:So useful for Windows OC'ers (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Linux doesn't need any more distros (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:Overclocking damage via software, Possible on P (Score:2, Insightful)
What I remember is, years ago, there was a virus that re-flashed the BIOS with garbage, so it would fail to boot. (I think it's the CIH virus. Somewhere around 1999.) A lot of people had gone crazy, and had to call the customer support to replace the BIOS flash.
Well, if a 'user application' could wreck your (maybe modern) PC, then that's not a feature, that's a critical security threat. (A DOS attack, I guess.)