When Windows experiences a critical, unrecoverable error state, the operating system crashes and displays the infamous Blue Screen of Death (BSOD). Typically, the only solution to a BSOD is to reboot the machine and hope no critical data is lost. It has been an annoying quirk of Windows for over 30 years since Microsoft introduced the error screen with Windows NT 3.1 in 1993.
However, a newly released open-source utility is turning the BSOD tradition upside down, promising users the ability to keep using their PC even after an unrecoverable Windows crash. First spotted by NTDEV, the developer of the Tiny11 Windows mod, the BugCheck2Linux tool can run a “real” Linux shell after a Windows BSOD occurrence.
