* Timothy R. Butler (tbutler@uninetsolutions.com) [20000604 01:53]:
ol' Linux. Just curious - if I were trying to make a system look "friendlier" for a new Linux user
Pray tell in what way does hiding the boot messages make a system
friendlier? Normally one can just ignore them, but in case of problems,
these sometimes quickly help you identify what's going wrong.
Only because MS set a precedent doesn't mean anybody has to follow it. And
even when you do find a way to hide the messages - which would only be
possible with some serious kernel code hacking, as the messages are output
with printk and are only 'redirectable' after syslogd has been started,
which happens quite some time later - the ouput of an eventual fsck and the
success/failure messages of the init scripts would destroy the logo anyways
(although all those messages could be redirected rather easily by changing
the init scripts).
As you see, lots of work with little or no real benefit.
Philipp
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Philipp Thomas