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Subject: Re: Bye-bye beastie ...
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On Tue, 2005-09-27 at 11:34, Kevin Kinsey wrote:
> Kirk Strauser wrote:
> 
> >On Monday 26 September 2005 22:54, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
> >  
> >
> >>Here you are, I'm sure this sort of thing is what you are really
> >>dying to have on there;
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >You owe me a new keyboard, preferably a spewed-coffee-proof one.
> >
> >Sincerely,
> >A sincere Christian who doesn't understand what all the fuss is about.
> >  
> >
> 
> Fortunately I'd finished my drink at the time, but I did wonder
> if he could send out a Protestant version ;-D
> 
> KDK
> 
> P.S.  Of course, if it was worth the "fuss", I could hack that
> myself...
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As well as turning off the beastie, is there a way to suppress all the
dmesg and other output, so that the first thing to appear is the KDM or
GDM login screen?  When I show FreeBSD to people who have only seen
Windows before, their first reaction is how geeky all that text looks as
it rolls by.  They are turned off before I even get to the login
screen.  Most current Linuxes are 'better' in this respect.

I realise it may make it harder to debug failed startups...