The point of starting up and shutting down sounds and pretty visual pictures is to entertain and to show that something is actually going on while the person is waiting. It was made because the computer was incapable of just turning on and off in a few milliseconds. Some PDAs don't have any starting up thingy because they load fast enough. When you've got the computer working this fast, it's only logical to remove the sound or make it shorter. The ideas to lengthen the shutdown sequence just for the sound are a steb backward, IMHO.
-- Shutdown sound is truncated https://launchpad.net/bugs/61530 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
