Re: GLOAT BLOAT (Was: Boot messages, Ideas for v2.1)

Andrew E. Mileski (aem@nic.ott.hookup.net)
Wed, 19 Jun 1996 11:48:36 -0400 (EDT)


> and blow the clouds away. How about also allowing the animation be the
> initial 5 minutes (or so) of the screen blackout. If the animation was
> really good, the penguin could use all sorts of ACME (Wyle Coyote) like
> things to keep those pesky clouds (roadrunner) away. Hmm. This could be
> a real VRML thing... GLOAT BLOAT! That would be a far better "screen
> saver" than most of the garbage I've seen under other environments.

I like this idea 100% - especially since it could be done in a user
space program (couldn't it?), where such things belong. In that case,
then this would no longer be a kernel issue (was it ever?).

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