There was a discussion in irc that I think was good and should be brought out here as it brought out some interesting discussion.
sys-boot/plymouth and sys-kernel/dracut which came about because of our current Splash screen. I didn't realize there was a problem with it, but some are having experiences with flickers and sluggishness. It all seems fine for me especially when comparing it to ubuntu's boot, which is slow and often just a black screen leaving ya wondering if it's even booting. So I would like to stay away from that myself. I prefer booting in verbose mode as I can watch for errors if something is wacky without having to deal with Splash. I don't follow development on plymouth or dracut, but sounds way too experimental at this point and time. IRC user and dev aidecoe even confirmed plymouth was buggy and that dracut was his main project. So how do we improve Splash? Boot up music on Sabayon, for me is not a good thing as my puter boots up so fast that by time the music starts to play, my desktop is already loaded. Do we really want to keep that feature? It's bold and different, but I don't think it works well with modern computer speeds. Maybe have the no music option as default and have the with music as an option on the menu for those that do enjoy it? On my spins, I have disabled the music option. There was discussion of arch linux, but I forgot where that was going as we are gentoo based. Maybe someone from the discussion can refresh what that thought was. I think it had to do with how stable and smooth arch linux runs, so therefore Sabayon should also. Someone will chime in on that one. Feel free to pass along your input/experiences, especially with boot up. -- Kelly Schwartz ~wolfden~
