On Mon, 08 Nov 2004 14:07:26 -0600, Matthew A. Nicholson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > | we have made a developer group to work on a project called debsplash, it is > a > | bootsplash for debian. > | Initially we started to port fbsplash on debian, but when we were working we > | met another idea of bootsplash from ubuntu distro. > | Ubuntu developers have thought to a bootsplash that is completely made in > | userspace. So it doesn't have any kernel patch. > | There is a main problem in this, really usplash is a child project so there > | are not "valid" sources for now. > | You can read some infos about fbsplash at > | http://dev.gentoo.org/~spock/projects/gensplash/ > | You can read some infos about usplash at > | http://www.ubuntulinux.org/wiki/WartyWarthogUsplash > | > | Now we have to decide which approach to choose, the fbsplash one or the > | usplash one, please sent your vote replying this message. If you are not > | interested to this stuff please do nothing. > | > | > > usplash. I have always prefered a userspace solution. And in reguard to > Fedora > rhgb, it runs X, which I don't really care for, the usplash stuff appears to > run > on a FB device and I think it is a better choice. I am game for make it use > dbus for communication which would enable it to do even cooler stuff. >
Matt, you should join #debsplash. We already talked about similar ideas. usplash has a lot of things in plans that we all want to achieve. Let's hope we can get started quickly. -- ----)(----- Luis M System Administrator LatinoMixed.com "We think basically you watch television to turn your brain off, and you work on your computer when you want to turn your brain on" -- Steve Jobs in an interview for MacWorld Magazine 2004-Feb No .doc: http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.es.html
