From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 27 13:09:43 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0100E16A4CE for ; Wed, 27 Apr 2005 13:09:43 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mailserv1.neuroflux.com (ns2.neuroflux.com [204.228.228.85]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 79B4643D5C for ; Wed, 27 Apr 2005 13:09:42 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ryans@gamersimpact.com) Received: (qmail 6782 invoked by uid 1003); 27 Apr 2005 13:10:07 -0000 Received: from ryans@gamersimpact.com by mailserv1.neuroflux.com by uid 89 with qmail-scanner-1.22 (clamscan: 0.65. spamassassin: 2.60. Clear:RC:1(63.231.170.25):. Processed in 2.182889 secs); 27 Apr 2005 13:10:07 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.0.5?) (63.231.170.25) by mailserv1.neuroflux.com with SMTP; 27 Apr 2005 13:10:05 -0000 Message-ID: <426F8F21.1010100@gamersimpact.com> Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2005 08:09:53 -0500 From: Ryan Sommers User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.7.3 (Windows/20040803) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: /dev/null References: <57436.216.177.243.42.1114582155.localmail@webmail.dnswatch.com> In-Reply-To: <57436.216.177.243.42.1114582155.localmail@webmail.dnswatch.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: boot banner project X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2005 13:09:43 -0000 /dev/null wrote: > Hello any & all, > O.K. I feel I must preface this with an acknowledgment that I *know* > this is a silly project *because* given the *incredibly* long uptimes > that FreeBSD is known for. >>But<< for those *few* times when FreeBSDers > see a boot screen, shouldn't it look really nice? Shouldn't also be able > to reflect the Administrators tastes and personality? Well, this is the > premise for my attempting this project. But before I start, I want to > submit an RFC. So consider this an Request for comments. This is an > attempt to create a Graphical boot screen that initially has the > following layout: If you want to pursue this project, more power to you! Personally, I always liked the non graphics/colors boot process. It's especially nice when you are running headless servers and monitor the boot process and console messages via serial links. Something you should take a look at though is the KGI for BSD projects. http://wiki.daemon.li/moin.cgi/KGI -- Ryan Sommers ryans@gamersimpact.com