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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

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[–] mateomaui@reddthat.com 43 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Seems like some kind of sacrilege.

[–] Vilian@lemmy.ca 39 points 2 years ago (1 children)

i totally understand if they named it bsod just for the meme, it's funny also they could make an option to change de color :b

[–] mateomaui@reddthat.com 33 points 2 years ago (3 children)

They could have gone with the “Red Screen of Wrath” or something.

[–] db2@sopuli.xyz 24 points 2 years ago (3 children)
[–] zero_spelled_with_an_ecks@programming.dev 28 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] verdare@beehaw.org 9 points 2 years ago

I’m giving you bonus points for the alliteration.

[–] EonNShadow@pawb.social 9 points 2 years ago

The thought of someone's Linux install failing catastrophically, displaying a "MSoS", then the user switching back to the is MS OS because of it is funny to me.

[–] mateomaui@reddthat.com 4 points 2 years ago

That almost sounds soothing.

[–] Thorned_Rose@kbin.social 15 points 2 years ago

Back about two decades when I was using Windows and it was till easily customisable, I changed the bsod colour to red for funsies. Windows being Windows crashed and went to my red screen of death - my ex's cousin saw it and thought it was something really really bad, "Wow, a red screen, never seen that before. Must be even worse than blue". No mate, I just customise the shit out of anything I touch 😅

[–] 0x0@programming.dev 12 points 2 years ago

Fuchsia Screen of Disappointment

[–] snake@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Agreed, bsod is precisely what I’ve been running from with Linux.

[–] julianh@lemm.ee 47 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Correct me if I'm wrong but isn't this basically just better error reporting? It's not like it's gonna crash more often, it will just actually show log info if something catastrophic happens.

[–] kpw@kbin.social 42 points 2 years ago (1 children)

No, there is a random crash every six hours now to increase familiarity.

[–] Laser@feddit.de 8 points 2 years ago

Unfortunately this only affects boot messages, not normal system operation, for that you still get core dumps and kernel panics / oops

[–] ikidd@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

A BSOD that gave you a clue about why it happened would be a welcome change.

[–] Vilian@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 years ago

that's the goal, they also gonna implement the QR code, but not like the crappy of QR code on windows(that send you to a suppirt page with a dozen of possible sulution, where nothing work), the qr code is going translate to the kernel panic message, i liked, i can scan the qr code and search the error on my cell