For many years, Windows has displayed an error message that takes up the entire screen if the system’s core crashes and the computer must be restarted, the familiar so-called blue screen. The competitor Mac OS from Apple also displays a similar error message, although it has even less information than Windows.
Linux, on the other hand, usually only displays a technical error message and a log of the latest operations in the processor. That will now change when version 255 of the basic system process systemd is released, writes Tom’s Hardware. The update includes a dedicated “blue screen” for all Linux variants that use systemd, and has been released just in time to be included in the spring updates of major distributions such as Ubuntu and Redhat.
The new function is called systemd-bsod – where bsod naturally stands for “blue screen of death”, the English nickname for the Windows system crash message. Should the kernel crash, systemd-bsod will analyze the system log and, if possible, display an easy-to-understand error message along with a QR code leading to help pages – a feature also borrowed from Windows, which has had it since 2016.
Another big news in systemd 255 is support for TPM 2.0 modules and the ability to encrypt the boot disk with the keys stored securely in the TPM.
2023-12-10 11:05:57
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