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Torvalds: BSOD Blame Lies With Hardware, Not Windows
5 Dec
Summary
- Linus Torvalds attributes most Windows Blue Screen of Death errors to hardware.
- He cited unreliable hardware as the primary cause of system crashes.
- Torvalds also noted that gamers who overclock accept added unreliability.
Linux founder Linus Torvalds has offered a surprising defense of Microsoft's Windows operating system, suggesting that the notorious Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) is often misattributed. Torvalds believes that the majority of these system crashes stem not from software flaws, but from unreliable hardware components. He emphasized the importance of ECC memory for fundamental reliability.
Further elaborating on system stability, Torvalds highlighted that users engaging in overclocking, particularly gamers, are consciously accepting an increased risk of system unreliability. This practice, he implies, contributes to the perceived instability that often leads to crashes, rather than inherent software defects in Windows.
This discussion comes as Torvalds' own creation, Linux, approaches its 33rd anniversary since its initial functional shell release on September 17, 1991. The source code for Linux has been freely available since its inception, fostering a global community of developers and users.
