The fans on his tower spun up, a jet engine taking off in the quiet room. Lines of compiler text screamed up the screen, faster than he could read. Warnings about memory alignment. Errors concerning video drivers. He watched, his heart hammering against his ribs like a trapped bird.
The screen went pitch black. Then, without a BIOS post, without a bootloader menu, a sound rang out. sonic 1 forever linux
Elias froze. "What?"