Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 9 Feb 2001 02:03:37 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 9 Feb 2001 02:03:27 -0500 Received: from www.wen-online.de ([212.223.88.39]:48652 "EHLO wen-online.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 9 Feb 2001 02:03:18 -0500 Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2001 08:03:14 +0100 (CET) From: Mike Galbraith To: christophe barbe cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] Animated framebuffer logo for 2.4.1 In-Reply-To: <20010208150859.A19950@pc8.inup.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 8 Feb 2001, christophe barbe wrote: > Ok it seems not important to have a nice boot process but each time you show a linux machine to a M$ normal user (normal = not a programmer) his first reaction is something like ""what are all these strange output lines?". And it's the first thing that keep Windows user in the dark side. > Windows hides (or try to do) all messages by a blue screen (light blue, when you are lucky). > > For these reason, I use LPP (linux patch progress). It's a little patch. The main idea is : redirect all boot messages on the second console, display on the first one a bigger framebuffer logo (screen size) and draw on it the progress bar, progress text and warning messages. A proc interface is provided for the second part of the boot process (echo "starting X Font Server" > /proc/progress). > > The boot is not significantly longer (and with a well fitted kernel, is really faster than M$ Wx) and suddendly the first linux impression is really good. > > I hope this kind of patch can be integrated in the kernel. I hope that nothing like this is _ever_ integrated (and doubt I need be concerned;). IMHO, hiding output from users arrogantly assumes that they are too stupid/ignorant to have any use for such information. -Mike - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/