Re: AW: Bootscreen

From: John Bradford (john@grabjohn.com)
Date: Wed Jan 29 2003 - 05:18:58 EST


> > > I just upgraded from 3.6.1, which booted fine, to 3.6.2, which stops
> > > after Tux has waved twice, and winked his left eye.
> > >
> > Sounds pretty fun to me!
>
> Right.
>
> Q: It hangs when booting! Just get to see the cute penguin
> (whatshisnameagain?)
>
> A: What version of Linux? What exactly did the bird do before hanging? BTW,
> his (her?) name is Tux
>
> Q: Oh, yo mean like $BIG_DISTRO 10.7.3? Yep, Tux winked.
>
> A. No, the kernel version... [longish explanation deleted]. And exactly how
> many times did he wink? Which wings? Did he waddle about? How many
> steps? Did he blink? Did you install wink-blink-boot version 27.3, or
> are you still with the older one?
>
> [ad nauseam]

The funny thing is, in a few years, somebody will probably read
through these old comments in the archive, and decide to implement the
animated Tux boot sequence just for a laugh, and then we really *will*
get bug reports like that. I will then probably get flamed for
suggesting it in the begining :-).

John
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