Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2005 16:26:37 -0500 From: "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@over-yonder.net> To: Mike Edenfield <kutulu@kutulu.org> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: boot banner project Message-ID: <20050427212637.GL98718@over-yonder.net> In-Reply-To: <426FE1EA.7020900@kutulu.org> References: <57436.216.177.243.42.1114582155.localmail@webmail.dnswatch.com> <426FDE69.8090909@samsco.org> <426FE1EA.7020900@kutulu.org>
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On Wed, Apr 27, 2005 at 03:03:06PM -0400 I heard the voice of Mike Edenfield, and lo! it spake thus: > > One possible alternative to an all-out graphics display would be a > 'prettified' text console. I'm thinking of what Gentoo and older RedHat > systems did (haven't used RH in years, dunno if this still applies) > where about 80% of the system log messages are hidden behind a simple > task list: > > Mounting File Systems ... [ok] > Starting xl0 ... [ok] This is something I've always found somewhat ironic, actually. I'm not really sure overall whether I like it or not, but it IS very structured and consistent. The irony is that I find the Linux kernel bootup messages to be an insane mishmash that I can never sort ANYTHING out of, relative to FreeBSD's very neat and structured kernel probes. So maybe an OS is only allowed to be neat in one of the two 8-} -- Matthew Fuller (MF4839) | fullermd@over-yonder.net Systems/Network Administrator | http://www.over-yonder.net/~fullermd/ On the Internet, nobody can hear you scream.
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