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I find this conversation very interesting. I,
personally, just changed the runlevel at system start to level 3. And i don't
really see how hiding what's REALLY going on is going to help the computer
illiterate people more. I'd say the more a computer does things on it's own and
hides what it's doing the more problems you run into. Example: Windows.
Computer illiterate people who want to use linux
should learn how. Computer illiterate people who want to use Windows should also
learn how. Just because Windows is "easier" to use doesn't make them less
computer illiterate.
I don't see too many people saying "I want to use a
car, but i don't want to learn how, i just want to get in and I want the car to
know where i want to go and how to get me there without me doing anything but
sitting and watching all the pretty colors."
Anyway, just change the runlevel and login and type
'startx'.
===Michael
Date: Thu, 01 Jan 2004 17:45:27 -0700
From: Rob Park <rbpark@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Show Details on Bootup Reply-To: fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx Fritz Whittington wrote: > Agreed. Hopefully, he will respond. [Except that in my case, the "show > details" in rhgb is *more* ugly, not less :-) ] Actually, I kind of like rhgb, with the details hidden or not. I think it's slick. And I think that rhgb is one of the things that linux really needs to make inroads on the desktop. The kernel's boot procedure needs an option to disable all normal output (ie, only print anything if it's an error, otherwise be quiet -- much like how rhgb shows no details at first but will automatically go into detailed mode if one of the bootscripts fails). Then the linux boot procedure will basically have no confusing text scrolling all over the place, it would all be very slick and professional, and more "computer-illiterate" type people will be able to use linux (compare with the WinXP bootup procedure). |
