Re: 2.1.107: logo ???

Ragnar Hojland Espinosa (root@lightside.ddns.org)
Thu, 25 Jun 1998 20:51:01 +0200 (MET DST)

> Thomas Quinot writes:
> ->Can someone explain what interesting magic makes an utterly
> ->useless feature such as an horrible penguin bitmap relevant
> ->in a code-frozen kernel ???
>
> As I see it is side effect of adding framebuffer to x86 which in turn
> is side effect of having framebuffers on other architectures already,
> so it kind of made sense to have uniform framebuffer across all
> architectures.

I really dont want to push up another logo thread again, but wouldnt it
actually make more sense to REMOVE the logo in other architectures? Does
the _kernel_ benefit in something? Does it really need to be there? Any
reason why it's not in user space?

.. Or are we trying to `catch up' with those 25M source code lines of NT?

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