Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Now, why didn't we think of this before? | From | Firebeard <> | Date | 25 Mar 1997 10:58:14 -0600 |
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>>>>> Andrew Vanderstock writes:
AV> I'd also like to see much better boot management. The idea of an AV> OS booting to a textual display in 1997 is ridiculous.
Given that, with the textual boot method currently in place, Linux kernel development can't keep up with the pace new video adapters are released (the kernel can't recognize or take advantage of my Matrox Mystique, or the Paradise Pipeline 64 I had before it (released no later than June 96), for two specific examples), the idea that Linux should boot to anything but a textual display is itself ridiculous. I'm sure that you can configure the boot process to start xdm if you wish, but having the Linux kernel boot in a graphics mode would exclude bleeding edge adoptees, who have formed the core of the Linux development effort.
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