From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Jul 4 17:16:28 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from thneed.ubergeeks.com (thneed.ubergeeks.com [206.205.41.245]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EF5A115140 for ; Sun, 4 Jul 1999 17:16:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from adrian@ubergeeks.com) Received: from localhost (adrian@localhost) by thneed.ubergeeks.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id UAA00489; Sun, 4 Jul 1999 20:16:01 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from adrian@ubergeeks.com) X-Authentication-Warning: thneed.ubergeeks.com: adrian owned process doing -bs Date: Sun, 4 Jul 1999 20:16:01 -0400 (EDT) From: Adrian Filipi-Martin Reply-To: Adrian Filipi-Martin To: Anthony Kimball Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Lizard... In-Reply-To: <14205.24876.313315.658481@avalon.east> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 2 Jul 1999, Anthony Kimball wrote: > > Lizard has a tetris game built in for those long waits... > Now THAT is cool. Using the "holistic emergency shell" on vty4 when doing a network install is more fun. At the very least it has been useful during evangelical installations. While the system extracting the bundles over ftp, I was able to telnet to another box and continue showing one of the deans of technology at UVa how a configured system looked. He was duly impressed by the fact that we didn't have to watch the progress meter twiddling my thumbs. Seriously though, do we really want frivolous bloat? If we need to provide entertainment, give the installer the option of reading netnews or a few select newbie articles from daemonnews or even a brief history of BSD. Adrian -- [ adrian@ubergeeks.com -- Ubergeeks Consulting -- http://www.ubergeeks.com/ ] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message