Blue Screen of Death for Mac OS X

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Monday September 11, 2006 @11:07AM from the creative-wastes-of-time dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Possibly nothing in the OS world has as much of a bad rap as the infamous BSOD (blue screen of death) in Microsoft Windows. On the other hand Apple hides the ugly kernel panics behind a nice looking GUI which only tells you its time to restart your dead system. Interestingly Mac OS X kernel has a secret API which lets you decide what your kernel panics are going to look like! In this Mac OS X Internals article Amit Singh explains how to use this API. Apparently you can upload custom panic images into the kernel and there's even a way to test these images by causing a fake panic. The article also shows the ultimate joke is to upload an actual BSOD image for authentic Windows looking panics right inside of OS X."

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What a funny joke by insomniac8400 · 2006-09-11 13:09 · Score: 0, Flamebait

Now that blue screens don't come up in xp anymore, apple is picking up the slack by letting you customize it's error screens to be blue. So all the blue screen refrences can still be valid. Thanks apple for writing a crappy os.