On Tue, 4 Jan 2005 15:14:21 +0100, website <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello to all. > For now the main under developing project of bootsplash in userspace is > usplash or ubuntusplash or miscrosplash. here is the main page: > http://www.ubuntulinux.org/wiki/USplash
usplash is the way to go (and the U in front should mean "user-space" and not Ubuntu, as this should apply to all distros and distros flavors -- mepis, xandros, ubuntu, etc.. all debian-based distros); but, since it will be sponsored in parts by the ubuntu people, they can call it whatever they want on their end. >From our end, though, debsplash is considered as 99% done, with the only thing missing being a better rc script (which means we might have to port sysv-rc package and ask users to install this new "ported" package as a dependancy to debsplash). For those interested in the current stage of debsplash, you can get it from alioth: http://alioth.debian.org/projects/debsplash Don't install it from debian packages yet, as I'm working on a new sysv-rc package to include our modified /etc/init.d/rc script. That way we won't have to dpkg-divert the existing rc script. Then when debsplash is 100% done, we will move away from fbsplash-based boot splash (meaning, patching the kernel and whatever else) and work on a completely user-space system. Now, going back to why NOT to use a X-based system for boot splash, it doesn't matter how you do it, that approach will be overly complicated for what's needed. You will have to deal with video cards, and a whole bunch of other crap, plus the code may not be so easy to understand once the whole thing is complete it. And let's not forgot licensing issues as xorg/xfree etc.. are NOT gpl'ed. So we can't simply copy code from it. And if we are going to do this, why not simply just make the RedHat/Fedora boot splash system more generic so that Debian systems can use it? I just think is a bad thing. -- ----)(----- 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
