From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 27 21:26:42 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D18916A4CE for ; Wed, 27 Apr 2005 21:26:42 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mortis.over-yonder.net (adsl-12-42-198.jan.bellsouth.net [65.12.42.198]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6535D43D46 for ; Wed, 27 Apr 2005 21:26:39 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from fullermd@over-yonder.net) Received: by mortis.over-yonder.net (Postfix, from userid 100) id 1219620F20; Wed, 27 Apr 2005 16:26:38 -0500 (CDT) Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2005 16:26:37 -0500 From: "Matthew D. Fuller" To: Mike Edenfield Message-ID: <20050427212637.GL98718@over-yonder.net> References: <57436.216.177.243.42.1114582155.localmail@webmail.dnswatch.com> <426FDE69.8090909@samsco.org> <426FE1EA.7020900@kutulu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <426FE1EA.7020900@kutulu.org> X-Editor: vi X-OS: FreeBSD User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i-fullermd.2 cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: boot banner project X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2005 21:26:42 -0000 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.