Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1999 08:57:56 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com> To: Donald Wilde <dwilde1@thuntek.net> Cc: Alfred Perlstein <bright@rush.net>, advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Standard Splash Screen? Message-ID: <3727A084.8D1ACC9F@newsguy.com> References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990427183222.10204M-100000@cygnus.rush.net> <37271317.6F1BF48@thuntek.net>
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Donald Wilde wrote: > > 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. Splash screens do not prevent boot messages from being printed. They are still there, and can be seen as soon as the splash screen goes away (at the login prompt, or by pressing any key after the rc starts). Not trying to convince anyone of using them, just trying to dispel what seems to be a myth about them. -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org "Proof of Trotsky's farsightedness if that _none_ of his predictions have come true yet." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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