From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Sep 23 12:02:50 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id MAA17305 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 23 Sep 1996 12:02:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from casparc.ppp.net (casparc.ppp.net [194.64.12.35]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA17267 for ; Mon, 23 Sep 1996 12:02:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ernie by casparc.ppp.net with uucp (Smail3.1.28.1 #1) id m0v5GGk-000I4yC; Mon, 23 Sep 96 21:02 MET DST Received: by ernie.kts.org (Smail3.1.29.1 #5) id m0v5FNf-000009C; Mon, 23 Sep 96 20:05 MET DST Message-Id: From: hm@kts.org (Hellmuth Michaelis) Subject: Re: splash-page on bootup.. To: wpaul@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu (Bill Paul) Date: Mon, 23 Sep 1996 20:05:18 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199609231352.JAA18085@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu> from "Bill Paul" at Sep 23, 96 09:51:57 am Organization: Kitchen Table Systems Reply-To: hm@kts.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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 -- Hellmuth Michaelis hm@kts.org Hamburg, Europe (A)bort, (R)etry, (I)nstall BSD ?