>>>>> Andrew Vanderstock writes:
AV> I'd also like to see much better boot management. The idea of an
AV> OS booting to a textual display in 1997 is ridiculous.
Given that, with the textual boot method currently in place,
Linux kernel development can't keep up with the pace new video
adapters are released (the kernel can't recognize or take advantage of
my Matrox Mystique, or the Paradise Pipeline 64 I had before it
(released no later than June 96), for two specific examples), the idea
that Linux should boot to anything but a textual display is itself
ridiculous. I'm sure that you can configure the boot process to start
xdm if you wish, but having the Linux kernel boot in a graphics mode
would exclude bleeding edge adoptees, who have formed the core of the
Linux development effort.
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