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From: Darren Reed <avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au>
Subject: Re: Sun Workshop compiler vs. GCC?
To: jehamby@lightside.com (Jake Hamby)
Date: Sun, 16 Feb 1997 11:05:30 +1100 (EDT)
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In-Reply-To: <199702152232.OAA05103@lightside.com> from "Jake Hamby" at Feb 15, 97 02:32:00 pm
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In some mail from Jake Hamby, sie said:
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> See my previous post (which I cc:ed to config, not hackers, as per Jordan's 
> suggestion), in which I discuss what Solaris does when it boots (logs 
> hardware probes to syslog by default, not the console), and why we should 
> keep FreeBSD the way it is (because x86 hardware is difficult to configure 
> and people WANT the hardware probe messages).

IMHO, that is a reflection of the diference in the knowledege of the average
user of FreeBSD compared with Solaris.

To those of us here, and probably 99% of those running FreeBSD, those probe
messages mean something.  Are they likely to mean anything to a secretary ?

Another take on starting up is HP-UX 10.  Being SVR4, it has run levels
and start/stop scripts.  HP have added "startmsg" and "stopmsg" to all
their scripts, so that when you boot, it prints a menu type listing and
displays "OK", "BUSY", "N/A", "FAIL" in the little check box for each
rc script.  With about 16 per screen, it clears the screen when it gets to
the bottom and presents a new menu.  It _looks_ very professional and is
very informative (stderr/stdout for all rc scripts goes to a file).

Darren