From owner-freebsd-advocacy Tue Apr 27 16:24: 9 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from peach.ocn.ne.jp (peach.ocn.ne.jp [210.145.254.87]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5BC9114BE6 for ; Tue, 27 Apr 1999 16:24:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dcs@newsguy.com) Received: from newsguy.com by peach.ocn.ne.jp (8.9.1a/OCN) id IAA00408; Wed, 28 Apr 1999 08:24:01 +0900 (JST) Message-ID: <37264693.D478A848@newsguy.com> Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 08:21:55 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.51 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: pt-BR,ja MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alfred Perlstein Cc: advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Standard Splash Screen? References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Alfred Perlstein wrote: > > On Wed, 28 Apr 1999, Daniel C. Sobral wrote: > > > Anyone here would vote on any of the currently available art for a > > default boot splash screen? "Real Hackers don't use splash screens" > > votes also apply. :-) > > Real Hackers don't use splash screens > > I really like seeing my hardware probed at bootup, perhaps sysinstall > should have an easy to notice splash selection dialog. My idea is a "I want a cool splash screen during boot!" checkbox. Aside from getting a bitmap in the repository for the express purpose of having a cool splash screen, I think the biggest hurdle would be that anything choosen is likely to draw criticism. -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org "Well, Windows works, using a loose definition of 'works'..." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message