Re: [SLUG] Which distros have a novice-friendly boot screen?

From: patrick grantham (pwgrant@cssi-fl.com)
Date: Tue Jul 30 2002 - 11:30:10 EDT


Linux booting in an informative manner?! That's putting it mildly.

On Tuesday 30 July 2002 10:40, you wrote:
> Mandrake had a fairly friendly boot-up... And, yes, there is something
> to be said for warm fuzzies.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ben Ostrowsky [mailto:ostrowb@tblc.org]
> Sent: Tuesday, July 30, 2002 9:43 AM
> To: SLUG
> Subject: [SLUG] Which distros have a novice-friendly boot screen?
>
>
> There's something to be said for the pretty fluffy clouds of Windows
> 95. I think the usual Linux boot messages are causing my sweetie to
> wonder "What on EARTH am I in for?!". (I use SuSE 7.3.)
>
> Which distros can easily be made to boot in a less informative manner,
> preferably with soothing images?
>
> Ben



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