From: john slee <indigoid@higherplane.net>
To: Tim Jansen <tim@tjansen.de>
Cc: lgb@lgb.hu, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: The new X-Kernel !
Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2001 01:37:47 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20011022013747.I5511@higherplane.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <00d401c159ae$6000c7d0$5cbefea9@moya> <20011021093728.A17786@vega.digitel2002.hu> <15vI4j-1Z1VtgC@fmrl02.sul.t-online.com>
In-Reply-To: <15vI4j-1Z1VtgC@fmrl02.sul.t-online.com>
On Sun, Oct 21, 2001 at 02:54:15PM +0200, Tim Jansen wrote:
> But what the kernel COULD do is include something like the Linux Progress
> Patch (http://lpp.freelords.org/). It replaces the text output of the kernel
> with graphics and a progress bar, so people are not frightened by cryptic
> text output while booting.
this is something for distributions to do... even if the world turned
inside out and it got included there'd be endless flamewars (and
patches) concerning what colour the progress bar should be by default.
i read an interesting essay about that sort of thing on a freebsd list
once - search on freebsd archives for "garden shed" or similar.
j.
--
R N G G "Well, there it goes again... And we just sit
I G G G here without opposable thumbs." -- gary larson
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-10-21 15:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 64+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-10-20 21:30 The new X-Kernel ! MichaelM
2001-10-20 21:43 ` Mike Fedyk
2001-10-21 0:08 ` Aaron Lehmann
2001-10-21 7:37 ` Gábor Lénárt
2001-10-21 8:33 ` Jonathan Morton
2001-10-21 8:50 ` Gábor Lénárt
2001-10-21 9:13 ` Jonathan Morton
2001-10-21 17:06 ` James Simmons
2001-10-21 10:26 ` Allan Sandfeld
2001-10-21 14:19 ` Alan Cox
2001-10-21 17:18 ` James Simmons
2001-10-21 17:26 ` Alan Cox
2001-10-21 17:40 ` James Simmons
2001-10-21 19:17 ` Tim Jansen
2001-10-22 0:10 ` Jesse Pollard
2001-10-22 0:37 ` Tim Jansen
2001-10-22 17:18 ` James Simmons
2001-10-22 16:51 ` James Simmons
2001-10-22 18:35 ` Tim Jansen
2001-10-23 7:05 ` Allan Sandfeld
2001-10-21 19:53 ` Gábor Lénárt
2001-10-22 17:04 ` James Simmons
2001-10-23 6:45 ` Albert D. Cahalan
2001-10-21 12:54 ` Tim Jansen
2001-10-21 15:37 ` john slee [this message]
2001-10-21 19:04 ` Tim Jansen
2001-10-21 20:03 ` Gábor Lénárt
2001-10-21 21:06 ` LPP (was: The new X-Kernel !) Tim Jansen
2001-10-21 21:22 ` The new X-Kernel ! Federico Sevilla III
2001-10-21 21:31 ` Gábor Lénárt
2001-10-21 21:38 ` Sean Cavanaugh
2001-10-21 21:52 ` Alan Cox
2001-10-21 22:39 ` Oden Eriksson
2001-10-22 4:44 ` Sean Cavanaugh
2001-10-21 21:53 ` Gábor Lénárt
2001-10-21 22:19 ` LPP (was: The new X-Kernel !) Tim Jansen
2001-10-22 0:28 ` Jakob Østergaard
2001-10-22 0:57 ` Tim Jansen
2001-10-22 8:34 ` Abraham vd Merwe
2001-10-22 0:24 ` Ragnar Hojland Espinosa
2001-10-23 20:50 ` Petr Baudis
2001-10-30 2:18 ` Ragnar Hojland Espinosa
2001-10-22 9:37 ` Sunil Phatak
2001-10-22 9:47 ` Abraham vd Merwe
2001-10-22 14:33 ` MichaelM
2001-10-22 19:13 ` Mike Fedyk
2001-10-22 11:42 ` David Relson
2001-10-21 22:14 ` The new X-Kernel ! Leo Spalteholz
2001-10-22 5:17 ` Jonathan Morton
2001-10-21 16:09 ` Malcolm H. Teas
2001-10-21 19:04 ` Tim Jansen
2001-10-21 19:13 ` Bernd Eckenfels
2001-10-21 19:30 ` Gábor Lénárt
2001-10-21 19:49 ` J Sloan
2001-10-21 21:12 ` Tim Jansen
2001-10-21 21:20 ` D. Stimits
2001-10-21 21:41 ` Gábor Lénárt
2001-10-22 5:42 ` Dwayne C. Litzenberger
2001-10-31 17:34 ` Jim Freeman
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-10-21 21:44 Samium Gromoff
2001-10-21 22:01 ` Gábor Lénárt
[not found] <fa.fbu5gjv.1526gp4@ifi.uio.no>
[not found] ` <fa.ltbaijv.13jgcr7@ifi.uio.no>
2001-10-22 1:14 ` Dan Maas
2001-10-22 8:09 ` Alan Cox
2001-10-22 17:56 Jesse Pollard
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