in modern day:
more flexibility equals less speed
more speed equals less flexibility
and in the future we have:
more speed because of HARDWARE ENGINEERS
which we can use to due a 3D gui with penguins playing pool on
startup --- or for real purposes.
the trick is:
the HARDWARE people should be following the SOFTWARE people around
not the other way because eventually I believe that hardware and software
will be ONE.
J. Weatherbee
On Tue, 25 Mar 1997, J. Sean Connell wrote:
> On Tue, 25 Mar 1997, Klaus Lichtenwalder wrote:
>
> > [thoughts and comments on graphical boot sequences deleted]
>
> AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH.
>
> LET THIS THREAD DIE!
>
> We discussed this to death five months ago, just before 2.0 came out. Someone
> made a patch to display a penguin. I know that some of you are diametrically
> opposed to a GUI boot sequence. I also know that some of you are
> diametrically opposed to a text boot sequence.
>
> GET OVER IT!
>
> If I remember the upshot of the discussion the most recent time this has come
> up, there ain't no way on this Earth that a GUI boot sequence is going to make
> it into the mainstream Linux kernel, no matter how loudly you may clamor for
> it. That's the beauty of Linux; if you don't like it, you can lump it, or you
> can change it to suit your needs/wants/tastes.
>
> This particular tangent got us nowhere fast last time except for (indubitably)
> lots of people mass-unsubscribing from linux-kernel simply to get away from
> the damned spam.
>
> If it weren't for the fact that it'd kill the legitimate discussion I'd like
> to follow, I'd killfile this subject now and forever (or until the next time
> it comes up, probably just before Linux {2.2,3.0}? comes out.
>
> --
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