On Oct 7 2007 21:13, Willy Tarreau wrote: >There are two distinct populations : > - those [...] > who would never have imagined that pressing Escape > during the boot of windows 3.1/95 provided them with the full text > messages.
This is news to me. DOS always showed messages, and under Win95, it was either F8 or removing logo.sys. I did troubleshoot it ;-) > - those who are troubleshooting their system [...] > >I personally fit in the second category. > >I would say that while I'm not particularly fond of flashy colors >everywhere I have to agree so really. Just because there's a color option for everything does not mean one should use it. In fact, I moved away[2] from the default Midnight Commander styling because it's just - as Dave calls it - salad colors[1]. Some is good, as long as it is not excessive. While I could imagine that Knoppix will abuse the feature and use vt.printk_color=9,9,9,9,11,10,12, this is not what serious people would do. [1] http://tinyurl.com/yr9zgq [2] http://tinyurl.com/234ba3 >, I think that being able to use colors to indicate particular >actions in progress or conditions can be a good thing. RAID errors, >devices disabled due to command-line parameters, - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
