I love this! Not only for the comedic value, but throwing kernel oopses on-screen when they can’t be easily captured when unprepared would be of great help in solving system problems. Unlike the cryptic messages Windows displays, Linux kernel messages are quite useful.
Isn’t this the default behavior of all(?) modern *nix init? Maybe not SysV, i don’t know.
At least make it pink or smth
Seems like some kind of sacrilege.
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
I hope this isn’t going to be the default. I know, the average granny might prefer to have a BSOD with a QR code, but I think a lot of the people who are more tech-savvy, like me, would prefer to see log messages when booting because then you could see which service failed and why or why it’s all of a sudden taking so long to boot. That’s also why I choose not to have a splash screen when booting.
Anyways, this BSOD thing doesn’t apply to me because I use Gentoo with OpenRC.
- Hibernation into swap files backed by Btrfs are now supported.
So, with btrfs on ssd, is there any use case for a swap partition?
Some Highlights:
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A new component “systemd-bsod” has been added to show logged error messages full-screen if they have a “LOG_EMERG” log level. This is intended as a tool for displaying emergency log messages full-screen on boot failures. Yes, BSOD in this case short for “Blue Screen of Death”. This was worked on as part of Outreachy 2023. The systemd-bsod will also display a QR code for getting more information on the error causing the boot failure.
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Hibernation into swap files backed by Btrfs are now supported.
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Support for split-usr has been removed.
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