[Westwales] blue screen of death screen saver

Telsa Gwynne hobbit at aloss.ukuu.org.uk
Wed Aug 11 22:26:58 BST 2004


On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 09:53:07PM +0100 or thereabouts, Colin Sauze wrote:
> While we are being all nostalgic,
> 
> I remember some older Linux distros (like redhat 5.2) shipping with a 
> screen saver which showed various crash screens from all kinds of 
> different platforms including the windows blue screen of death. However 
> looking around my boxes all running fairly modern linux distros I can't 
> seem to find it anywhere, and a google search hasn't revealed anything.

That is definitely still around. It was the screensaver running
when I returned to my laptop recently, causing me mild panic.

> Anybody know where I can find a copy of this screen saver?

xscreensaver :) It's the bsod one, which has a man page under
"man 1 bsod". 

Do read the bugs section, btw..

Telsa




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