From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Sep 24 09:06:21 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id JAA06364 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 24 Sep 1996 09:06:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gatekeeper.fsl.noaa.gov (gatekeeper.fsl.noaa.gov [137.75.131.181]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id JAA06329 for ; Tue, 24 Sep 1996 09:06:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cardinal.fsl.noaa.gov (daemon@cardinal.fsl.noaa.gov [137.75.60.101]) by gatekeeper.fsl.noaa.gov (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id QAA09131; Tue, 24 Sep 1996 16:06:13 GMT Received: from auk.fsl.noaa.gov by cardinal.fsl.noaa.gov with SMTP (1.40.112.3/16.2) id AA178451168; Tue, 24 Sep 1996 16:06:08 GMT Message-Id: <324806F0.79F6@fsl.noaa.gov> Date: Tue, 24 Sep 1996 10:06:08 -0600 From: Sean Kelly Organization: NOAA Forecast Systems Laboratory X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0b8Gold (X11; I; HP-UX B.10.10 9000/725) Mime-Version: 1.0 To: Rob Snow Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: splash-page on bootup.. References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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/