On Saturday 08 Aug 2015 18:02:00 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sat, 8 Aug 2015 16:00:29 +0000 (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote: > > Yep, I find it infuriating that by default all distros seem to go to > > great effort to hide as much information about the boot/startup > > process as possible. WTF? Do they think that stuff is top secret or > > something? Are they afraid they'll lose their jobs if that info gets > > out? > > No, they think that the type of user they are trying to attract is likely > to be scared off by all that cryptic text scrolling by. They are probably > right. > > Gentoo doesn't hide it, it merely clears the screen once the boot has > completed successfully. If the boot halts, you can see where and, > usually, why it stopped. Try that with openUbundora.
Also on a server console you may not want anyone walking by to see what services you're running, what your IP address is, what NFS it's connecting to, etc. Of course, for a home PC with a single user these concerns do not apply. -- Regards, Mick
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