Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2005 13:25:01 +0400 From: Toxa <postfix@sendmail.ru> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: boot banner project Message-ID: <20050429092501.GB43752@laptoxa.toxa.lan> In-Reply-To: <A3719B10-3CF3-4D6B-A168-0D635D5AA3E8@tamu.edu> References: <57436.216.177.243.42.1114582155.localmail@webmail.dnswatch.com> <426FDE69.8090909@samsco.org> <426FE1EA.7020900@kutulu.org> <20050428105348.GA8056@laptoxa.toxa.lan> <4270CC84.8060904@centtech.com> <20050429010318.GB17799@laptoxa.toxa.lan> <A3719B10-3CF3-4D6B-A168-0D635D5AA3E8@tamu.edu>
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On Thu, Apr 28, 2005 at 08:17:30PM -0500, R. Tyler Ballance wrote: > I think you're mistaking convenience for bloat...someone mentioned > the old redhat boot process earlier, and I can agree with them, that > that was, convenient, easy to read, and in no way seemed to add any > bloat to the ASCII output. > > Now, a pretty image, a la FreeSBIE, _is_ bloat, but I don't think > that's what is being mentioned or suggested here. > > Toxa, you make Window Managers, and a lot of GUI apps that make > things like, using MacOS X sound terribly bloated, don't discount > aesthetics right off the bat, they're not always "evil bloat" > I'm afraid of tendency. A little this, a little that, and at the end of it we'll get pretty nifty OS full of "cool but really unnecessary" features :-)
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