DRM = Direct Rendering Manager, in case anyone else was thinking Digital Rights Management…
On the one hand, that is cool as fuck.
Unfortunately though, I’ve been fortunate in that I’ve been using Linux for 16 years and never experienced a panic screen, so I probably won’t get to see Tux :/
Delete /etc to make your system faster. /s Also, obligatory warning to NEVER DO THIS for anyone new to Linux.
Would this even cause a kernel panic? I think this just causes a userland “panic”
Yeah ‘etc’ of course stands for ‘et cetera’ which implies that’s all just a bunch of extra shit, right?
For destructive commands I much prefer find / -type f -exec mv {} /blackhole \;
This is making me realize that I have never encountered this equivalent of a blue screen of death on Linux.
It’s very new. Previously the system would just drop to a console with a message saying “Kernel panic: not syncing: [reason]” and a whole bunch of debug info.
But still, on a well-maintained system, that pretty much never happens. Mainly because Linux is significantly more resilient to faults in device drivers than Windows.
Begs the question what’s the point in all of this? In 20 or so years of using Linux (usually maintaining multiple systems at once) I’ve had a kernel panic maybe about 4 times for different reasons, and on those occasions the console debug info was fine. I don’t really understand the excitement around making error messages look more like Windows. It can’t be around being more newbie friendly since if you’re having kernel panics you probably need to be an expert or have expert advice anyway.
Last time I saw kernel panic I was on 2.6. I don’t think I’ll ever see him. :(
Hes not fat hes a rotund penguin on his way to mate!