Christoffer Sawicki wrote:
Matthew P McGuire <gray@shadowglade.net> wrote:This also doesn't account for grub or lilo if you dual boot and need the boot selection menu. There are graphical options for lilo, but I do not know about grub.GRUB has support for graphics in almost the same way as LILO. Ross Burton <ross@debian.org> wrote:Wouldn't a complete init rewrite be a little over the top? Porting rhbg from Fedora would be a far easier solution and it does look quite nice. http://fedora.redhat.com/projects/additional-projects/rhgb/ RossAs this would, at least, involve patching current init scripts (correct me if I'm wrong) I think it's better to redesign the whole init system to get it right. Anyway, RHGB on top of that new init system would be perfect.(For those who want to use `bootsplash', maybe we could make a bootsplash enabled kernel available? For the time being, that is.)*/ Christoffer Sawicki <qerub@home.se>
Hmm rhgb is a nice peice of software, it seems they have a list of things that happen built into the software that are announced as they happen. A quick glance over the source reveals a client/server arch in which the rhgb server is started and then starts X, upon which time gtk is used to do pretty stuff. Pretty intresting.
I myself am very intrested in something like this: http://www.gnome.org/~seth/blog/2003/Sep/27 For a init rewrite for desktop use to be done properly it must support things like: * Alerting the user that new hardware was added to the system *after* boot and login. * Announcing it's actions and progress as it goes. * Handling boot failures gracefully. * Looking good, or not. * Single userish mode for failure recovery.RHGB is nice, but it does not fill all of those needs, not that it would be a bad thing to have in debian or anything...
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