Gary Greene said: > I very much disagree with that. The one thing that Aurora did well was > obfuscating the start scripts from the user. MS Windows splash screen > is simple for a reason: the common joe user doesn't care that a > certain subsystem is loading or not. all they care is that it works. > If fsck, kudzu, and harddrake don't know how to behave with the it, > find a workaround for them. And saying that we shouldn't care about > the startup's appearance, then we've religated Linux only to the > technological geeks. We should always make sure that the first thing > that they see will inspire confidence that this is a polished and > professional product.
I dont think that those messages make linux unprofessional or difficult for newbies. They simply have to wait 10 sec for the GDM login screen (or even autologin) and then login in their KDE and open StarOffice XMMS and Mozilla. Remember: a) Build a system that any idiot can use and they will make a better idiot. b) Build a system that any idiot can use and only idiots will use it. Just a joke ;-) For the complete newbies i think we should make a new Mandrake distribution: one CD, no compilers and development packages, no emacs ;-), pre-configured programs and only one package for a task.
