- 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?
New systemd update will bring Windows’ infamous Blue Screen of Death to Linux
Submitted 11 months ago by leo@lemmy.linuxuserspace.show to news@lemmy.linuxuserspace.show
https://arstechnica.com/?p=1989459
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danielfgom@lemmy.world 11 months ago
leo@lemmy.linuxuserspace.show 11 months 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_EMERGwhich is pretty cool. And systemd being fairly modular, you can probably just turn it off, assuming you use a distro that enables it.FarraigePlaisteach@kbin.social 11 months ago
I’m sure someone asked for it.
danielfgom@lemmy.world 11 months ago
There are WAY more free lance devs working on Linux than there are corporations - thankfully
nobleshift@lemmy.world 11 months ago
[deleted]random65837@lemmy.world 11 months ago
That makes perfect sense, why know what caused the crash right away when you can manually check logs… fail.
Grass@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
As long as it can be the same colour as the terminal there’s literally no reason to Frank out and write sensationalized headlines. Even if it was hard coded blue it’s not from windows. The name is obviously a reference but isn’t going to have m$ code or somehow make the kernel worse. It also requires a log level config so any existing os install likely won’t be affected unless you do it yourself.
kerneltux@lemmy.world 11 months ago
…and of course, this news is getting mixed reactions from the Linux nerds…
Back when I used Windows, I remember the BSOD’s being about as useful to me as someone pointing in opposite directions saying “he/she/they went that way.” So long as the new Linux blue screens provide info that’s actually useful in diagnosing the problem(s), I see no issues with this. [shrugs]
Gork@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Do they have to be blue though? We all have collective PTSD from getting Windows BSODs.
kerneltux@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Yeah, I totally get that, I have really bad memories myself.
If it’s an ncurses/similar interface that enables keyboard navigation through dmesg/journalctl, and provides info that allows us to properly diagnose it, I can see this being useful.
But yeah, I’ll admit that simply saying “BSOD’s are coming to Linux” without additional info about the implementation does bring feelings of dread in me.
leo@lemmy.linuxuserspace.show 11 months ago
Yep. I agree. And it looks like anything that makes it to
LOG_EMERGwill be shown on the screen as well as a QR code to look things up with. Seems like it’ll be pretty useful, honestly.