Fedora Core 3

[Jeff Spaleta]

On Wed, 07 Jul 2004 10:47:42 +0200, Harald Hoyer <harald at redhat.com> wrote:
> I once made a kernel patch, which printed a "." for every line that would have been printed.
> This gives you a nice feedback, that your machine actually is doing s.th.

So in a fine grained kernel bootup verbosity world perhaps we should
have a few more modes:

school-library-silent  : 
  Absolutely no talking from the kernel or it goes to detention

juggling-penquin-ascii-animated-statusbar: 
  Far far better than just silly little "."'s

just-tell-me-what-I-think-is-worth-a-text-notice:  
  Something close to the current quiet mode, using mindreading
technology that I have
  patented to give a modicum of textual scroll based on what the user
"thinks" is worth
  reporting.

graphical:  
  yawn, boring

subliminal:
  why ruin the pretty graphical bootup with text I can actively read.
sublimal messaging will
  be far more effective and far less instrusive on the eye.
  
peepd:
  translate all textual or graphical information about statup into a
soundscape...
  too bad the netpeep project appears to be dead. 

-jef"uses the go-get-coffee mode when he reboots his boxes"spaleta