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Date:      Fri, 13 Aug 1999 07:32:26 +0100 (IST)
From:      "Steve O'Hara-Smith" <steveo@iol.ie>
To:        Ben Rosengart <ben@skunk.org>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG, multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: it's time...
Message-ID:  <XFMail.990813073226.steveo@iol.ie>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9908121439500.32085-100000@penelope.skunk.org>

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On 12-Aug-99 Ben Rosengart wrote:
> On Wed, 11 Aug 1999, Brian F. Feldman wrote:
> 
>> What in the world would be the point of doing this? What would be so
>> great
>> about not seeing the system boot up?
> 
> One might want minimal or no boot messages, just to look nice, while
> still wanting the dmesg stuff around in case something goes wrong or
> they need to configure a kernel.  It's certainly chrome, but I'd like
> it.

        Surely if you don't want to see the boot messages for cosmetic
reasons a splash screen is the most cosmeticly pleasing solution.



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