Hoary Bootsplash

[Michael Scottaline]

On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 09:51:12 +0100, Vincent Trouilliez
<vincent.trouilliez at modulonet.fr> wrote:
> > The Hoary Goals wiki page says it's deferred to post-Hoary.
> > http://www.ubuntulinux.org/wiki/HoaryGoals
> 
> Oh no... :o(
> 
> Next question is : will Hoary come with everything needed for people to
> make the "normal"/"old fashioned" boot splash, like the one in Mandrake
> of the Warty live CD.
> 
> A few month back, I was told that Warty DOES NOT allow for boot splash
> at all   ! IIRC, something to do with the kernel lacking sometihng.
> 
> So hopefully, hoary's Kernel will come with everything it needs to make
> a boot splash.
> Also, would be great if someone knowledgeable in this domain, could
> write a "How to" implement bootspash in Hoary, with a step by step
> procedure on how to patch the kernel, if need be.
> Could someone do that ??
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Just curious.  Absoutely no sarcasm intended, but..., of what possible
use is a boot splash?  What function does it perform?  Am I missing
something?  If a boot splash is what I think it is, it sounds like a
waste of programmer resources (`less someone's just [i]scratching an
itch[/i]).  Does it actually have a use to some of us that I'm
missing?
Peace,
Mike

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