Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Sun, 21 Oct 2001 23:31:43 +0200 | | From | Gábor Lénárt <> | | Subject | Re: The new X-Kernel ! |
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On Mon, Oct 22, 2001 at 05:22:47AM +0800, Federico Sevilla III wrote: > On Sun, 21 Oct 2001 at 22:03, Gábor Lénárt wrote: > > Errrm ;-) It's very bad thing to hide boot messages even for novice > > users. They can't bugreport in this way ... I thing the best way would > > be the penguin logo at the top, and some pixel progress bar under Tux. > > The messages should remain IMHO. > > I strongly agree with this. Besides, dislike of the "greek" kernel > messages is not universal to all newbies. I know a number of ultra-newbies > who actually like this, and have asked me to (they don't know how) remove > their Windows 9x bootup screens so that it feels "geekier". And these > people aren't geeks.
:) Even an (ex)girlfriend of mine said that Linux is much better than Windows, because of the messages on boot ("superb cyber feeling a'la Matrix :)"). So I don't think so that messages are annoying even for stupid users.
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