Bill Rushmore wrote: > On Fri, 31 Mar 2006, Thomas Maier-Komor wrote: > >> And what makes an OS fancy? When and how do you "see" an OS? During booting! >> What does Windows show us during booting? A nice logo. >> Linux? Penguins and a lot of information about the system it is running on. >> > My response is: Who cares?! I actually find the boot screen of a Sparc > workstation quite pleasing, simple, to the point, and no frivolous logos. >
I hope you didn't miss that I'd like this polish to work on a VT100. So I don't really want a lot of logos. If it is the way to go fine, but personally I'd prefer some information when the system comes up. E.g. the simple: checking ufs filesystems: <something> is logging. is great. Good information right to the point. I miss something equivalent for ZFS, but I said that already in a previous posting. > There is a reason why Solaris has become my desktop of choice, Thomas. > One of the reason is that it doesn't have all of those "fluff" things to > try to make it look pretty. I am thankful that the Sun team concetrated > on speeding up the booting of Solaris and not how it looks. > I totally agree with you concerning this. But OTOH I think there are many people out there who should take a look at Solaris, because it could help them get their work done much faster and easier. And many of those people prefer a GUI over a CLI. I think a little bit of style and fancyness isn't that bad, especially if there might be a booting alternative that gets you all the information you want or none at all if you prefer it that way. > In my opinion Solaris doesn't have to be like Linux, Mac, or Windows to > compete. (Other distros may want too if they want.) For Solaris to be > succesful Solaris should be Solaris, not some other OS. > Seconded. Solaris is top, because it is the way it is and doesn't try to mimic too much other concepts. But copying and enhancing has always been a good concept, too. So why not learn something from the competitors? _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
