Free operating system Linux is looking to Windows as its role model, at least in this one way: implementing its own Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) to warn users in cases of a kernel panic.

Millions of critical Windows-based systems across the globe are experiencing the dreaded Blue Screen of Death (BSOD), here's what caused it.

Got the Windows blue screen of death? Here's what the BSOD is and what to do if you've got it.

Why change the blue screen to black now? Did the viral images of Times Square rendered useless by the BSOD cause that much reputational harm?