On Monday 22 October 2001 02:28, you wrote:
> How would hiding that information make the system "easier to use" ?
Because the majority of people (and especially those who haven't been reached
by Linux yet) don't care for the messages. They are as interested in boot
messages as you may be in reading debug information from your DVD player or
car.
Assuming you have a car with a display for the embedded computer, and you
don't know anything about its software or hardware, you just want to drive.
Would you prefer to see lots of cryptic messages when you turn the key, or
just some simple picture with a progress bar showing you when the system is
ready?
IMHO the bar is all you need. Everything else just distracts you from the
only important thing.
Showing unimportant information is like turning on debug messages that you
don't need.
bye...
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