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From: John Bradford <john@grabjohn.com>
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Subject: Re: AW: Bootscreen
To: brand@jupiter.cs.uni-dortmund.de (Horst von Brand)
Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2003 10:18:58 +0000 (GMT)
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> > > I just upgraded from 3.6.1, which booted fine, to 3.6.2, which stops
> > > after Tux has waved twice, and winked his left eye.
> > > 
> > Sounds pretty fun to me!
> 
> Right.
> 
> Q: It hangs when booting! Just get to see the cute penguin
>    (whatshisnameagain?)
> 
> A: What version of Linux? What exactly did the bird do before hanging? BTW,
>    his (her?) name is Tux
> 
> Q: Oh, yo mean like $BIG_DISTRO 10.7.3? Yep, Tux winked.
> 
> A. No, the kernel version... [longish explanation deleted]. And exactly how
>    many times did he wink? Which wings? Did he waddle about? How many
>    steps? Did he blink? Did you install wink-blink-boot version 27.3, or
>    are you still with the older one?
> 
> [ad nauseam]

The funny thing is, in a few years, somebody will probably read
through these old comments in the archive, and decide to implement the
animated Tux boot sequence just for a laugh, and then we really *will*
get bug reports like that.  I will then probably get flamed for
suggesting it in the begining :-).

John
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