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I'm completely with you on this, but there is one issue: many hardware platforms are simply incapable to show such scrolling text (or dump it into UART) fast en
by dfox 9y ago
I'm completely with you on this, but there is one issue: many hardware platforms are simply incapable to show such scrolling text (or dump it into UART) fast enough in the early boot stages which is the reason why you don't today get that even on server-oriented distributions.
Somewhat ironic is that KDE3 splashscreen showed low-levelish looking messages that had nothing to do with what was really happening in order to cater to users with this approach to computing.
- estebank 9y ago> Somewhat ironic is that KDE3 splashscreen showed low-levelish looking messages that had nothing to do with what was really happening in order to cater to users with this approach to computing. "Reticulating splines"
- dfox 9y agoMaxis' games (ie. "Reticulating splines", but SimCity 4 does that to) and KSP also comes to mind for this, but in these cases the messages are obvious nonsense, which is not the case for KDE.