Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754909AbXJGStS (ORCPT ); Sun, 7 Oct 2007 14:49:18 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752313AbXJGStI (ORCPT ); Sun, 7 Oct 2007 14:49:08 -0400 Received: from smtpq2.tilbu1.nb.home.nl ([213.51.146.201]:59625 "EHLO smtpq2.tilbu1.nb.home.nl" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752292AbXJGStH (ORCPT ); Sun, 7 Oct 2007 14:49:07 -0400 Message-ID: <470929D8.80003@keyaccess.nl> Date: Sun, 07 Oct 2007 20:47:52 +0200 From: Rene Herman User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (X11/20070728) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ingo Molnar CC: Oleg Verych , Jan Engelhardt , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Dave Jones , Krzysztof Halasa , Medve Emilian-EMMEDVE1 , Helge Deller Subject: Re: "Re: [PATCH 0/2] Colored kernel output (run2)" + "`Subject:' usage" References: <20071006195105.GE22435@flower.upol.cz> <20071006194820.GA30579@elte.hu> <20071006210349.GG22435@flower.upol.cz> <20071007060706.GA18768@elte.hu> <20071007111035.GO22435@flower.upol.cz> <20071007161255.GA22102@elte.hu> In-Reply-To: <20071007161255.GA22102@elte.hu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-AtHome-MailScanner-Information: Neem contact op met support@home.nl voor meer informatie X-AtHome-MailScanner: Found to be clean Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1279 Lines: 30 On 10/07/2007 06:12 PM, Ingo Molnar wrote: > * Oleg Verych wrote: >> Coloring isn't useful. If it was, it would be implemented ~16 years >> ago. > > Congratulations, this is the most stupid argument i've ever read on > lkml. "Ay. World is finished. Everyone can go home and watch Friends reruns now." But well, there actually have been worse arguments given that VGA console is getting less and less important. I recently did a perusal of alternative distributions and didn't find a single one that didn't default to having a splash screen hide the kernel during boot (and if I'm not mistaken, only one of them provided me with the option during installation to not boot into X immediately afterwards). Sure, that in itself needn't necesarily be of concern to anyone who, err, is not concerned but any such colouring feature appearing when there's only a smathering of people left that still cares about the VGA console in the first place really isn't all _that_ far out as an argument... Rene. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/