Re: Scaring the non-geeks (was Bootscreen)

["Murray J. Root" <murrayr@brain.org>]

On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 02:58:21PM +0100, Xavier Bestel wrote:
> 
> > How do positive terms such as OK or YES scare people? 
> 
> Goblodoing the frungled devil                 [OK]
> Escraping various gunfred                     [OK]
> Erasing sdfjebr documents                     [OK]
> 
> .. ad nauseum
> 
> now who's scared ?
> 

Seems to me the best place to do the graphical thing is at the distro.
Mandrake has been messing with GUI bootscreens for a few versions, now, and
while I haven't been excited by the results I think it's the right place. My
only reason for not liking Mandrake's screens is that I *like* plain text.
The distros will want to tailor the screens themselves, anyway, so let em
do the code, too. 

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Murray J. Root