Messages in this thread |  | | | From | Oden Eriksson <> | | Subject | Re: The new X-Kernel ! | | Date | Mon, 22 Oct 2001 00:39:35 +0200 |
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On Sundayen den 21 October 2001 23.52, Alan Cox wrote: > > Normal users really don't need to see the startup message spam on boot, > > unless there is an error (at which point it should be able to present > > the error to the user). Any kind of of progress indicator' s really > > The big problem is making sure they then see the error, and the previous > progress information. On a solid hang they might not get it > > > more for feedback that the boot is proceeding ok. The fact the boot > > sequence isn't even interactive should also be a big hint that it isn't > > really necessary (except for kernel and driver developers). > > You are thinking the small picture not the big one. If you are going to > graphical in init then you want to make full use of the graphical > environment to clearly show things like parallel fsck behaviour, what > servers are starting up (with pretty icons) and to do interactive things > like starting a rescue shell, going single user, pausing the boot, > changing run level, interactive boot. >
Gee, this sounds like Mandrake with candy like "Aurora" and "Linuxconf", I prefer the old behaivour though :)
-- Oden Eriksson, Jokkmokk, Sweden. Mandrake Linux release 8.1 (Vitamin) for i586, kernel 2.4.12-3mdk. Uptime: 18:17 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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