Causing BSODs with gardenfault

The one thing windows gets the most hate for! BSODs! Now available in a portable fashion!

(Relatively) Recently, Linux got bluescreen support with the drm_panic feature. After that systemd added systemd-bsod, which adds BSODs for userspace components, by listening to journald for emergency logs.

Since journald is tied closely to systemd, user friendly error screens were still not available in non-systemd linux and any non-systemd *nix/posix operating system.

With gardenfault, any system that has a logger which speaks syslog and has a VT can also bluescreen! Currently only Linux, but adding VT support for any other operating system is trivial.

A BSOD will look like this:

A black screen with purple text on it, on the left a House with a garden is shown, on the right a QR code is shown, at the bottom an error message is displayed, followed by a text that reads 'Press any key to exit...'

References

Gardenfault repository: git.pinkro.se codeberg