Date: Tue, 24 Sep 1996 10:06:08 -0600 From: Sean Kelly <kelly@fsl.noaa.gov> To: Rob Snow <rsnow@lgc.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: splash-page on bootup.. Message-ID: <324806F0.79F6@fsl.noaa.gov> References: <Pine.SGI.3.95.960924083948.21321C-100000@dympna>
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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/
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