From owner-freebsd-advocacy Wed Apr 28 12:18: 3 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from xylan.com (postal.xylan.com [208.8.0.248]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C9881577A for ; Wed, 28 Apr 1999 12:17:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from mailhub.xylan.com by xylan.com (8.8.7/SMI-SVR4 (xylan-mgw 2.2 [OUT])) id MAA10050; Wed, 28 Apr 1999 12:16:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from omni.xylan.com by mailhub.xylan.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4 (mailhub 2.1 [HUB])) id MAA25460; Wed, 28 Apr 1999 12:16:11 -0700 Received: from softweyr.com (dyn5.utah.xylan.com) by omni.xylan.com (4.1/SMI-4.1 (xylan engr [SPOOL])) id AA16343; Wed, 28 Apr 99 12:16:02 PDT Message-Id: <37275E76.A01D69C0@softweyr.com> Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 13:16:06 -0600 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.1-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en Mime-Version: 1.0 To: Donald Wilde Cc: Alfred Perlstein , "Daniel C. Sobral" , advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Standard Splash Screen? References: <37271317.6F1BF48@thuntek.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Donald Wilde wrote: > > 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. > > > Agree with this totally. the only way I'd load a splash screen would be > if the boot messages could be toggled on and off as an overlay scrolling > across it. I like the idea of a sysinstall knob for splash screens. Generally they annoy me, but I've installed a splash screen on my laptop because I often find myself starting it in the midst of a crowd of "the unwashed masses," and I want them to view our cute little daemon in all his glory during the boot sequence. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC http://www.softweyr.com/~softweyr wes@softweyr.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message