An Ubuntu developer got the Blue Screen of Death

Apr 15, 2015 14:39 GMT  ·  By

The Blue Screen of Death is a common occurrence on Windows systems, less now than a few years ago, but it still happens. Seeing one on a Linux system is like spotting a unicorn, not impossible, but highly unlikely.

The famous BSOD error (Blue Screen of Death) even happened to Bill Gates during the launch of Windows 98. It's an error associated with Windows systems, and we don't think that it might happen on Linux, but it looks like it does. You can have a Linux systems installed for many years and never even see a crash, let alone a BSOD, but it happened to an Ubuntu developer.

The truth is that crashes on Linux systems happen all the time, but users usually provoke them. We know when we forced the installation of something that we shouldn't have, like a Beta driver, for example, so narrowing down problems is not a difficult thing to do. And we don't even have to mention that most problems can be fixed without having to reinstall the entire OS.

From the looks of it, Ubuntu developer Marco Trevisan was just suspending his system when he got an error on a blue background. The culprit seemed to be the radeon kernel module, but he didn't do anything to make it crash.

If you got a BSOD, please leave a comment. It would be interesting to see just how many people are affected by this issue, which should be a small one.