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Comment on New systemd update will bring Windows’ infamous Blue Screen of Death to Linux

danielfgom@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

I hope it’s not blue for heavens sake
I hope it’s actually useful because Windows bsod is not at all.
Systemd adding yet more stuff to it’s repertoire.
I assume you only see this if you use systemd to boot your system? If you use GRUB will you still see this?

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leo@lemmy.linuxuserspace.show ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I don’t mind it being blue, any high contrast color will do, though. As for usefulness, when it happens, you’ll get a QR code to look things up with and be shown anything that made it to LOG_EMERG which is pretty cool. And systemd being fairly modular, you can probably just turn it off, assuming you use a distro that enables it.

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FarraigePlaisteach@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I’m sure someone asked for it.

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- danielfgom@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  There are WAY more free lance devs working on Linux than there are corporations - thankfully
  
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  - FarraigePlaisteach@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    The biggest contributors to linux (the kernel), are corporations: https://news.itsfoss.com/huawei-kernel-contribution/
    
    Is it the case that individual devs add up to a greater total than those? I really hope so. Regardless, surely someone is asking for this stuff or it wouldn't have found investment.
    
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    danielfgom@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    That’s what I mean. There are thousands of people worldwide submitting bug fixes and improvements. Plus when I say “Linux” I don’t only mean the kernel. I’m taking about GNU + Linux - desktops, libraries, applications etc. These are all part of what makes a distro possible. And all of that is largely done by normal Devs for free.
    
    Even people like the Mint Team who make the Cinnamon desktop are doing it for free. They get donations but that’s not a salary and when they started the project they had no donations.
    
    Same for Debian. I don’t think anyone at Debian gets paid.
    
    And let’s not forget the entire GNU piece was done for free by Richard Stallman and friends. Without that there wouldn’t be distros as we know them today.
    
    The kernel is only a bunch of drivers that talks to hardware (mouse, keyboard, usb devices etc). That’s it! On its own it’s useless. The GNU part is the OS and the kernel just tells the OS what hardware is connected and how to talk to it.
    
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