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Impressions of -RC1Impressions of -RC1Posted Oct 26, 2006 15:57 UTC (Thu) by rsidd (subscriber, #2582)In reply to: Impressions of -RC1 by abatters Parent article: Ubuntu 6.10 ("Edgy Eft") available 3) Upstart is nice, but by default it shows just a graphical progress bar with no messages about what it is doing. That's not upstart, that's their new usplash. They decided that ordinary people get confused by the messages. If you want the messages, you can boot without the "splash" option, and if you want more messages, you can also remove the "quiet" option. But then you don't get the splash.
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Impressions of -RC1 Posted Oct 26, 2006 22:10 UTC (Thu) by pphaneuf (guest, #23480) [Link] I like the way SuSE (and some others I gather) have a simple progress bar, with a "press Escape for details" in small writing at the bottom. When you do, the bootsplash goes away, and you get the regular boot messages. Same for shutdown, it's quite simple and pretty.
Impressions of -RC1 Posted Oct 27, 2006 3:32 UTC (Fri) by Richard_J_Neill (subscriber, #23093) [Link] Likewise on ubuntu - press the Esc key for info. (Of course, Ubuntu fails to tell you about this!)
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Impressions of -RC1 Posted Nov 5, 2006 15:55 UTC (Sun) by johnnyspire (guest, #41500) [Link] Well my install of Kubuntu 6.10 DOESNT respond to the ESC key during startup and shutdown.
It also hangs on reboot. (Not shutdown, just reboot)
I'm working on the ATI driver issues now.
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