On Oct 7 2007 21:13, Willy Tarreau wrote:
>There are two distinct populations :
> - those [...]
> who would never have imagined that pressing Escape
> during the boot of windows 3.1/95 provided them with the full text
> messages.
This is news to me. DOS always showed messages, and under Win95,
it was either F8 or removing logo.sys. I did troubleshoot it ;-)
> - those who are troubleshooting their system [...]
>
>I personally fit in the second category.
>
>I would say that while I'm not particularly fond of flashy colors
>everywhere
I have to agree so really. Just because there's a color option for
everything does not mean one should use it.
In fact, I moved away[2] from the default Midnight Commander styling
because it's just - as Dave calls it - salad colors[1].
Some is good, as long as it is not excessive. While I could imagine that
Knoppix will abuse the feature and use vt.printk_color=9,9,9,9,11,10,12,
this is not what serious people would do.
[1] http://tinyurl.com/yr9zgq
[2] http://tinyurl.com/234ba3
>, I think that being able to use colors to indicate particular
>actions in progress or conditions can be a good thing. RAID errors,
>devices disabled due to command-line parameters,
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