On 01/24/2013 02:36 PM, Bill Bogstad wrote: > I > would even argue that we have gone backwards in the Linux world. For > example, it seems like every Linux distribution now hides its boot > time status messages behind a contentless graphical boot image. The > result is that users never have a clue what is going on when their > system is booting. I understand that we don't want to "scare people > away", but it seems like in the process we are losing out on educating > them as well. If it was truly the case that our computer system > never required human intervention to make them work, then it wouldn't > matter; but it seems unlikely that is going to happen any time soon. I would agree 100% here. I usually set verbose on the kernel boot lines after installation, but on many distros hitting escape shows the details. On RHEL you have to do a mouse click.
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