Show Details on Bootup
Rob Park
rbpark at ualberta.ca
Fri Jan 2 05:33:47 UTC 2004
Rodolfo J. Paiz wrote:
> I am personally delighted that the graphical boot is finally maturing
> (and waiting for a graphical shutdown to keep it company). Several
> computer-illiterate users have commented to me that watching all that
> cryptic text flying across the screen scares them and has convinced them
> (just from that one little detail) that Linux is for computer-savvy
> people only since it /must/ be difficult to understand all that.
Exactly! I touched on that idea in another of my emails, the linux
bootup/shutdown sequence scares people who aren't technically savvy.
Not only do we need a graphical shutdown procedure, but we also need a
way to hide all of the kernel messages that are displayed before rhgb
starts :)
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