I would just like to ask about the shift in boot display philosophies. Don't get me wrong here, I'm no big fan of Aurora - and I don't care to start a flame war over pretty GUI boot vs. ugly text details . .
Think about other desktop OSs - Mac OS/X, Microsnot, OS/2 - etc. Most desktop OSs shield the average user from the boot details (but maintain usually a good log of events if something goes wrong) I was a bit surprised to find Aurora missing from the latest Cooker releases and the bootsplash stuff is under construction - so I'm not sure how it'll end up looking. To be quite honest, I personally find the Suse 7.3 boot screens very professional and nice mixture of information and pretty-ness . . . I was kinda hoping that Mandrake would be going in this direction. Sorry for the rant, the question is simply "now that Aurora is out, what is the intended direction for Mandrake's boot display?" Aurora was not as evil as some mentioned, and Mandrake even got good reviews for 8.1 because of it . . . It was nice to have the choice in the MCC to turn it on or off (with different themes to boot!) I for one think it would be nice if the option for it was still there (maybe in contribs?) - but it appears to have mysteriously vanished from Cooker. That's my 2 euro cents here. Sorry for the interruption, continue with your normal activities and have a nice weekend! R.Fox
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