On patching usplash, boot times and Live CD

[Matthew Garrett]

On Sun, May 14, 2006 at 12:51:56PM +0200, Frank Schoep wrote:

> I inserted the CD and booted from it. I sat in my chair, not touching anything 
> for about two minutes after which the Ubuntu desktop came up. Do I have a 
> mystical machine from the gods which does not require usplash user 
> interaction for the Live CD? I also didn't see any screen elements that 
> necessarily required a black background, but maybe I've overlooked it.

Frank, I'm afraid that patronising the developers is not a good way of 
encouraging them to discuss things with you. Yes, we could rewrite parts 
of the live CD infrastructure now in order to remove the need to provide 
text. Yes, we could ignore the problem that non-black backgrounds will 
look dreadful on machines which don't scale the image to fill the entire 
screen. But we're not going to so near a release. Sorry about that. In 
three weeks, we can have this discussion again.

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org