Re: Bootscreen

Wichert Akkerman
2003-01-28T14:19:19Z

Previously John Bradford wrote:
> Surely the most sensible lines to think along are:
>
> * Make boot times as short as possible

So with a short boot time instead of seeing text messages for a while
you'll get some flickering on the screen - I don't call that an
improvement.

> * Support, and encourage the use of more efficient CPU designs, so
> that it becomes sensible to leave machines on all the time.

Unfortunately in the real world we are dealing with existing cheap
hardware.

Wichert.

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