> There is a SERIOUS bug in all pentium CPUs. The following 
> code will crash any machine running on a pentium CPU, MMX or no 
> MMX, any speed, regardless of OS (crash as in instant seize, hard 
> reboot the only cure):
> 
> char x [5] = { 0xf0, 0x0f, 0xc7, 0xc8 };
>                  !!    !!

This is well known as the FOOF bug. Does not affect Linux.

Kartik

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