Re: Top 5 things that aren't in Debian but should be :-)

["Matthew A. Nicholson" <debian@matt-land.com>]

On Sun, 11 Jan 2004 20:05:55 -0600, Chris Cheney <ccheney@cheney.cx> wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 12, 2004 at 06:23:39AM +1030, Dan Shearer wrote:
> > So what, in your opinion, are the technologies (or significant packages)
> > which should be in Debian but are not? And why do you think they are
> > not?
>
> Uniform and prettier boot/init.d system with looks similiar to fedora 
> with
> possibly threaded(?) startup and logging as discussed during Debconf.
>
> I can't remember if its actually called threaded, but where non
> dependent services can start faster by doing it simultaneously...
>
> Chris

Boot splash can help with the prettier part.  I think that is what fedora 
uses, I know SuSE uses it.  I have packaged it (sorry no ITP) and it is 
avaliable from mentors.debian.net:

deb http://mentors.debian.net/debian unstable main contrib non-free
deb-src http://mentors.debian.net/debian unstable main contrib non-free

apt-get install kernel-patch-bootsplash bootsplash sysv-rc-bootsplash

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Matthew A. Nicholson
Matt-Land.com