Date: Tue, 24 Sep 1996 10:06:08 -0600 From: Sean Kelly <kelly@fsl.noaa.gov> To: Rob Snow <rsnow@lgc.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: splash-page on bootup.. Message-ID: <324806F0.79F6@fsl.noaa.gov> References: <Pine.SGI.3.95.960924083948.21321C-100000@dympna>
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Rob Snow wrote:
> I'm all for it.
Me, too.
> - Why not?
Indeed. Plus, some kind of visual cue could help spread FreeBSD's name
recognition and use:
Joe McHacker: "Hey, what's that Omnipotent Corp 5,000,000/XZ/PC
running over there?"
ISP Dude: "That's FreeBSD."
Joe McHacker: "But doesn't your ISP serve over 300 hundred million
simultaneous
users located on several planets with uptimes going
into the decades?"
ISP Dude: "Yep."
Joe McHacker: "Maybe I'll give it a try, too."
> - What _is_ the downside?
> - Dont want it, turn it off.
> - It's not "Windoze" that comes to mind, it's Irix (I think it was
> here slightly before W95...)
Quite. And I remember Sun Microsystems's twisty-little S logo appearing
on an old Sun 3/50 some time ago. (Then, there was the snazzy color
version on the Sun IPX.)
--
Sean Kelly
NOAA Forecast Systems Laboratory kelly@fsl.noaa.gov
Boulder Colorado USA http://www-sdd.fsl.noaa.gov/~kelly/
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