Re: The new X-Kernel !

Tim Jansen (tim@tjansen.de)
Sun, 21 Oct 2001 14:54:15 +0200


On Sunday 21 October 2001 09:37, Gábor Lénárt wrote:
> moved into kernel space :) IMHO it's strictly user space issue. You can
> start X or gdm/xdm/kdm from a boot script and so on. No kernel modification
> is needed for this.

But what the kernel COULD do is include something like the Linux Progress
Patch (http://lpp.freelords.org/). It replaces the text output of the kernel
with graphics and a progress bar, so people are not frightened by cryptic
text output while booting.

bye...
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