Date: Mon, 23 Sep 1996 20:05:18 +0200 (MET DST) From: hm@kts.org (Hellmuth Michaelis) To: wpaul@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu (Bill Paul) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: splash-page on bootup.. Message-ID: <m0v5FNf-000009C@ernie.kts.org> In-Reply-To: <199609231352.JAA18085@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu> from "Bill Paul" at Sep 23, 96 09:51:57 am
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Bill Paul wrote:
> Remember: we mutant ASCII terminal console users look just like the
> rest of you; we're everywhere. And we'll be watching.
Definitely. The difference between operating systems and the other crap
was always that one can work from VT100's on the former.
Seriously - i can see the validity of arguments of people saying that
FreeBSD needs an eye-catching intro page, but on the other side, if i
will be thrown at with all the useless animated human and machine
resource wasting graphics crap when starting up a future version of
FreeBSD, then .... it's too late!
Imagine what could have been done with all the man hours which went into
theses fully useless animated icons under Windows 95 ? And the CPU power
that it costs ... shudder!
Lets be different, not the same!
hellmuth
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Hellmuth Michaelis hm@kts.org Hamburg, Europe
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