systemd 255 Released With A "Blue Screen of Death" For Linux Systems

[rmfx]

They couldn’t use an other name than this??
Not only the name is stupid, not color modular, but also very bound to Windows.

[Quackdoc]

They nixed them because the error codes were giving users too much unhelpful information causing even more stress to the average user - the vast majority of Windows' users.

However, if you DO have that information and know what you're doing, you can attach a debugger and get the same information as you could in older versions.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/drivers/debugger/blue-screen-data

Systems programmers where this information is useful should already be aware of this. Everyone else it's just noise.

to me this sounds like a bunch of baloney coming from MS or something. I doubt the old style was any more "stressful" to the average user, in the end it's still a crash, now it's just immensely less useful for computer repairs people. ofc you can still just get the event viewer logs in most cases, but it's a much longer and more involved process now.

[varikonniemi]

SO MANY features get rolled into this project. New keywords for service files even when there already existed a whole bagful. Honestly, almost no-one knows how to correctly write a systemd service file that does exactly what is wanted. There are 5 methods to do the same thing, but they differ slightly in behavior in some edge case, and it usually takes a discussion thread of like 5 experienced systemd users and several days of brainstorming to achieve a "final" consensus how some non-trivial service file should be written. WTF?

I managed pretty well to live with cron and shell scripts under sysV. With systemd i can only hope google brings me to the right discussion thread for the type of service i need...

[cl333r]

Off-topic:
I'm smoking (weed) and thinking... aren't Elon Musk's future brain chips gonna be running on Linux? Will we as humans see a bsod when it crashes? I think it would be Cyberpunk as hell.

[jacob]

They couldn’t use an other name than this??
Not only the name is stupid, not color modular, but also very bound to Windows.

It's a good name. Everyone immediately knows what it means. "Color modular" would be an anti-feature here.

[andyprough]

Lennart is being paid by Microsoft to make desktop GNU/Linux more like Windows. So you might as well get used to this type of nonsense. Next up will be 'systemd-clippy', and 'systemd-cortana'.

[fitzie]

coming to a kiosk near you...

[fong38]

I hope it includes the giant frown as well

[sjukfan]

Your computers hang?

[kylew77]

Ideally, they'd come out with some sort of protocol for init systems and service managers to target so they'd be a little more plug-and-play, swappable, with each other.

Thanks, I agree that a modular approach would be cool. Even if just for Linux distros but especially for all Unix-like operating systems.