From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Sep 21 20:49:38 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id UAA03088 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 21 Sep 1996 20:49:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from w2xo.pgh.pa.us (w2xo.pgh.pa.us [206.210.70.5]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id UAA03052; Sat, 21 Sep 1996 20:49:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from durham@localhost) by w2xo.pgh.pa.us (8.6.12/8.6.9) id XAA01717; Sat, 21 Sep 1996 23:47:21 -0400 Date: Sat, 21 Sep 1996 23:47:21 -0400 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 0.3-beta [p0] on FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <20253.843351602@time.cdrom.com> Reply-To: durham@w2xo.pgh.pa.us Organization: Very little From: Jim Durham To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Subject: Re: splash-page on bootup.. Cc: , Brandon Gillespie , Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sat Sep 21 21:20:02 1996 Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: >>> Do we have any graphic designers here that could draw a nice >> FreeBSD "graphics for the dummies" entry pic ?? in say >> 320x200x256 or 640x480x16, then I'll do the code that makes >> it appear :) > >Just make it optional, that's all I ask. ;-) > > Jordan Amen... can you imagine what would happen if the system didn't boot? No boot...no reading var/log/messages to see what happened.. IMHO setting up the root window in X to some neat FreeBSD graphic would be just fine to impress the masses. Is it really a viable objection that probe messages are construed as flakey operation? I always thought the probe messages were the sign of "gee..this is a real operating system". regards,