On Apr 19, 2006, at 2:07 PM, Eric Anderson wrote:
Ok - first, let me remind everyone that this is for startup/
shutdown of scripts and such, not for ls and other things. I'd
also like to remind everyone that the default for the whole thing
can be OFF, so you won't even know the option exists if you don't
want to know about it. If it is on, then the default is b/w like
the current setup is, and currently no information is suppressed so
there is no loss of helpful information on boot, only additional
information (OK, FAILED, SKIP, etc).
If someone doesn't like the colors, doesn't like the 'fancy'
bootup, then they merely have to do nothing at all.
This is a similar feature as rc_info is, and there's no issue
there, because it's off by default. Same with the color daemon at
the boot menu.
I think it should be off by default, until enough people demand it
on (if that happens at all), and then it should be b/w by default,
with the option to make it color. My main goal was to implement
this with as little reworking of the current system as possible,
yet still reap rewards of easy readability when the system boots.
I hate to even suggest this, but perhaps we should add a desktop vs
server option when installing freebsd. It wouldn't effect packages
used, but might change a few defaults such as this new fancy
startup. People using terminals and such would still get their black
and white startup and everyone else would get the nice color
startup. Anyone using a desktop or sys admins who have video cards
in their servers and never tend to debug anything would like it. I
think PC-BSD and DesktopBSD show there is a demand for FreeBSD on the
desktop. It might be time we acknowledge that. Adding color doesn't
minimize the "power to serve." As much as I love FreeBSD, sometimes
its difficult to get others to try it simply because the project is
so difficult about desktop usage. People often try out a new OS on a
desktop before using it on production servers. Few people just risk
it like I did a few years ago. In my case, I just didn't want linux.
Lucas Holt
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