From: Stefan Reinauer <stepan@suse.de>
To: Balram Adlakha <b_adlakha@softhome.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Scaring the non-geeks (was Bootscreen)
Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2003 15:16:04 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030130141604.GE6066@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200301300121.48705.b_adlakha@softhome.net>
* Balram Adlakha <b_adlakha@softhome.net> [030129 20:51]:
> Exactly...
> So now its justified that there SHOULD be such a thing, and it SHOULD be
> WITHING THE KERNEL SOURCES because so many people will be using it and
> we don't want so many patched kernels do we?
> So now that there SHOULD be sucha thing, why not create a few implimentations
> of it which actually work well and put them into the sources?
> People seem to like MacOS X don't they? With a nice bootscreen, and with the
> latest version of kde, won't linux be similiar/better than macOS to the
> "click click" type users?
There's one implementation that is used by UnitedLinux, Mandrake, SuSE,
(and Gentoo?), patches are available at
ftp.suse.com/pub/people/stepan/bootsplash/
Stefan
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-01-30 14:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-01-29 19:51 Scaring the non-geeks (was Bootscreen) Balram Adlakha
2003-01-29 20:12 ` John Bradford
2003-01-30 14:16 ` Stefan Reinauer [this message]
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2003-01-29 17:18 Raphael Schmid
2003-01-29 13:25 Raphael Schmid
2003-01-28 14:40 Bootscreen John Bradford
2003-01-29 13:09 ` Scaring the non-geeks (was Bootscreen) Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk
2003-01-29 13:19 ` Richard B. Tilley (Brad)
2003-01-29 13:58 ` Xavier Bestel
2003-01-29 14:01 ` Richard B. Tilley (Brad)
2003-01-29 17:15 ` Wakko Warner
2003-01-29 14:12 ` Murray J. Root
2003-01-29 14:51 ` Tomas Szepe
2003-01-29 15:08 ` Alan Cox
2003-01-29 17:12 ` Rik van Riel
2003-01-30 18:53 ` Lars 'Cebewee' Noschinski
2003-01-30 19:29 ` Chris Friesen
2003-01-31 2:04 ` Barry K. Nathan
2003-01-31 16:09 ` Alvaro Lopes
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