Usplash question: a program is ready, but can we call it usplash?

[Goshawk]

Luis M Wrote: 
> usplash is a prefect name.
> 
> On Apr 8, 2005 1:11 PM, Vincenzo Ampolo <vincenzo.ampolo at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Hi to all
> > 
> > This email is asking a question about what to call a program that
> > follows
> > the Ubuntu 'usplash' ideas (described on the wiki).  Whether to name
> the
> > program 'usplash' or instead to call it something else?
> > 
> > Introduction & Debsplash
> > 
> > A year ago, we started talking about a new generation
> 'bootsplash'-style
> > system for Debian, written in userspace and not requiring kernel
> > patches.
> > At first there was a case of porting the Gentoo 'fbsplash' code to
> run
> > in a
> > Debian environment.  This we called 'debsplash' (Debian Splash).
> > 
> >  
> http://cvs.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/debsplash/debsplash/
> > 
> > Userspace splash
> > 
> > During the end of 2004, we came across the Ubuntu ideas for something
> > called
> > called 'usplash'.  All the ideas ('specification') for how to create
> > working
> > splash system are described in a page on the Ubuntu wiki:
> > 
> >   http://www.ubuntulinux.org/wiki/USplash
> > 
> > In few words, it plans:
> > 
> >   1) a image displayer (used for initrd/very early boot)
> >   2) a server/daemon   (used during main bootup)
> >   3) a notify program  (used to send events to the daemon)
> > 
> > and it works like this:
> > 
> >   The image displayer displays a picture during initrd and then
> exits.
> >   (It is completely separate to the rest of the 'usplash' ideas, but
> >   the test code does use the same drawing library).
> > 
> >   The main server/daemon is started later during boot;  It is sent
> > messages
> >   to 'upgrade' the display by the notify program.  The server
> responds
> > to
> >   these events by updating progress-bars and animations...
> > 
> > But... The 'debsplash' team, after spending 2 weeks studying the
> Ubuntu
> > wiki usplash page began thinking about another, better and less
> > resource-intensive approach.
> > 
> > >From December I started studying what was on the wiki page and
> started
> > to
> > develop something based on the ideas. In few weeks I saw that the
> > project
> > designed on the Ubuntu wiki page was too huge.
> > 
> > The 'agents' are split into many programs and all of them should be
> > placed
> > on '/sbin' instead of '/usr', since '/usr' is not always accessible
> at
> > boot
> > time since it may not be part of the root-partition (if /usr is a
> > network
> > partition we should wait until 70% of the entire boot time).
> > 
> > I believe that the various split programs will loose a lot of time
> > calling
> > each other to pass update messages...
> > 
> > So I started exploring another approach: Have only one program (or
> maybe
> > two; one for during booting-up and another one for when the computer
> is
> > shutdown)---all the problems relating to communications are solved
> and
> > it
> > should be faster than old approach.
> > 
> > I started using C and 'libmagick++', than thanks to Ubuntu
> beta-testers
> > (users I met on the Ubuntu forums and who have helped test the
> program)
> > we
> > switched to C++ and a library called '++dfb'.
> > 
> > I met sladen and learned a lot about issues with framebuffers and he
> > helped
> > me write some code.
> > 
> > Now, at the beginning of March, I think the program is ready and it
> > works
> > great, it doesn't extend the bootup-time very much since all the
> stuff
> > is
> > done by a forked child process.
> > 
> > I've had alot of success in the Ubuntu forums, with a lot of people
> > wanting
> > to try it and they've leave their feedback (look at the following
> > starting
> > from page 10 and read until the end)(My nickname on the forum is
> > Goshawk):
> > 
> > http://tinyurl.com/3wond
> > 
> > I have called this new project 'usplash' because it means Usermode
> > Splash
> > and it was (and it is) the first usermode bootsplash in the World.
> > 
> > One of my readers asked: ''Why are you writing this?  Now we are
> almost
> > ready for a usplash-0.1 release but we can't since we need your [the
> > Ubuntu
> > developers] consensus to use that name that was thought by Ubuntu
> > developers
> > first.'' (and relates to the design ideas on the Ubuntu wiki).
> > 
> > Information about my usplash (this usplash) can be found at:
> > 
> >   http://wiki.nanofreesoft.org/index.php/UsplashHowDoesItWork
> > 
> > Can we have your consensus.  Can we use the 'usplash' name or should
> I
> > choose a different one?
> > 
> >    -Vincenzo Ampolo
> > 
> > (Spelling/Grammar checked by Paul Sladen, the
> > views expressed are those of Vincenzo Ampolo).
> > 
> > _______________________________________________
> > Debsplash-devel mailing list
> > Debsplash-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org
> > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/debsplash-devel
> > 
> 
> 
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> Luis M
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Rui Andrada:
There is not any program relased as usplash-0.1 and either usplash-02.
But there is a program called "splashy" that is an usermode splash boot
and shutdown system.

infos at: http://wiki.nanofreesoft.org/index.php/Splashy


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