Date: Wed, 03 Dec 2003 17:12:33 +0100 From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> To: Olev <hannula@hot.ee> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 5.0 boot beastie animation? Message-ID: <9443.1070467953@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 03 Dec 2003 18:08:41 %2B0200." <3FCE0A89.90107@hot.ee>
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In message <3FCE0A89.90107@hot.ee>, Olev writes: >Just discovered a nice added leetness feature that makes the boot >beastie be drawn in full color (loader_color="YES" in loader.conf) ... >ok seems leet ... but wouldn't it be even more leet when it would be >drawn with the fork moving? One second with the fork 1 char space to >left and then after a second char space to the original place where it >is today (just 2 frames, and then redraw the beastie with one of them >every second). >We all boot our machines as seldom as possible, but let's make that >booting FUN. Just do not make it the default or people installing on serial consoles will hate you more than you imagine... -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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