Show Details on Bootup

[JonShado]

I find this conversation very interesting. I, personally, just changed the runlevel at system start to level 3. And i don't really see how hiding what's REALLY going on is going to help the computer illiterate people more. I'd say the more a computer does things on it's own and hides what it's doing the more problems you run into. Example: Windows. 

Computer illiterate people who want to use linux should learn how. Computer illiterate people who want to use Windows should also learn how. Just because Windows is "easier" to use doesn't make them less computer illiterate. 

I don't see too many people saying "I want to use a car, but i don't want to learn how, i just want to get in and I want the car to know where i want to go and how to get me there without me doing anything but sitting and watching all the pretty colors."

Anyway, just change the runlevel and login and type 'startx'.

===Michael 

Date: Thu, 01 Jan 2004 17:45:27 -0700
From: Rob Park <rbpark at ualberta.ca>
To: fedora-list at redhat.com
Subject: Re: Show Details on Bootup
Reply-To: fedora-list at redhat.com

Fritz Whittington wrote:
> Agreed.  Hopefully, he will respond.  [Except that in my case, the "show 
> details" in rhgb is *more* ugly, not less :-) ]

Actually, I kind of like rhgb, with the details hidden or not. I think 
it's slick. And I think that rhgb is one of the things that linux really 
needs to make inroads on the desktop. The kernel's boot procedure needs 
an option to disable all normal output (ie, only print anything if it's 
an error, otherwise be quiet -- much like how rhgb shows no details at 
first but will automatically go into detailed mode if one of the 
bootscripts fails). Then the linux boot procedure will basically have no 
confusing text scrolling all over the place, it would all be very slick 
and professional, and more "computer-illiterate" type people will be 
able to use linux (compare with the WinXP bootup procedure).
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