Toxa wrote: > On Wed, Apr 27, 2005 at 03:03:06PM -0400, Mike Edenfield wrote: >> >>One possible alternative to an all-out graphics display would be a >>'prettified' text console. I'm thinking of what Gentoo and older RedHat >>systems did (haven't used RH in years, dunno if this still applies) >>where about 80% of the system log messages are hidden behind a simple >>task list: >> >>Mounting File Systems ... [ok] >>Starting xl0 ... [ok] >> >>etc. With, of course, the obligatory cyan, magenta, and bright green >>colors. While partly eye candy, I find it much easier to deal with than > > > This is the most stupid idea I've ever head. Please, PLEASE, don't waste > your time turning FreeBSD into pink lolypop. Is it already > super-perfect-mega-stable-with-all-desired-features-implemeted? IMHO if > somebody wants to spare his time and skills working on freebsd, he should choose > more useful direction for his mights and power. For example, take a look > at all these PRs... 1) It is far from a stupid idea if even one person honestly feels it would be a benefit. No need to be abusive about it. 2) If I were to choose to work on FreeBSD, I would be free to work on whatever I felt was lacking. That's how it works. Especially given that I have nowhere near enough skill in C to work on more complex system-level issues. 3) I was merely making suggestions as to what alternatives were available. Since almost every Linux distro does something similar to this proposal, there is obviously SOME merit to it; the benefit may be miniscule, or irrelevant to many people, but it still exists. --MikeReceived on Thu Apr 28 2005 - 11:41:08 UTC
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