Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Date | Tue, 25 Mar 1997 23:46:20 -0800 (PST) | From | mdean <> | Subject | Re: Now, why didn't we think of this before? |
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I don't care about graphical boot sequences (like a 3d Rendered Pengiun shoveling Linux Snow into my machine). But you guys need to acknowledge the following when it comes to portability / flexibility/ speed
in modern day:
more flexibility equals less speed more speed equals less flexibility
and in the future we have:
more speed because of HARDWARE ENGINEERS which we can use to due a 3D gui with penguins playing pool on startup --- or for real purposes.
the trick is:
the HARDWARE people should be following the SOFTWARE people around not the other way because eventually I believe that hardware and software will be ONE.
J. Weatherbee
On Tue, 25 Mar 1997, J. Sean Connell wrote:
> On Tue, 25 Mar 1997, Klaus Lichtenwalder wrote: > > > [thoughts and comments on graphical boot sequences deleted] > > AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH. > > LET THIS THREAD DIE! > > We discussed this to death five months ago, just before 2.0 came out. Someone > made a patch to display a penguin. I know that some of you are diametrically > opposed to a GUI boot sequence. I also know that some of you are > diametrically opposed to a text boot sequence. > > GET OVER IT! > > If I remember the upshot of the discussion the most recent time this has come > up, there ain't no way on this Earth that a GUI boot sequence is going to make > it into the mainstream Linux kernel, no matter how loudly you may clamor for > it. That's the beauty of Linux; if you don't like it, you can lump it, or you > can change it to suit your needs/wants/tastes. > > This particular tangent got us nowhere fast last time except for (indubitably) > lots of people mass-unsubscribing from linux-kernel simply to get away from > the damned spam. > > If it weren't for the fact that it'd kill the legitimate discussion I'd like > to follow, I'd killfile this subject now and forever (or until the next time > it comes up, probably just before Linux {2.2,3.0}? comes out. > > -- > Jeffrey Connell | Systems Adminstrator, ICONZ > ankh@canuck.gen.nz | Any opinions stated above are not my employers', > ankh@iconz.co.nz | not my boyfriend's, my priest's, my God's, my > #include <stddisc.h> | my friends', and probably not even my own. > ---------------------------+-------------------------------------------------- > Fingerprint: 1024/2B8B116D | Key at http://www.canuck.gen.nz/~ankh/pgpkey.html > >
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