A beautiful dmesg! Maybe one day?

Rick Pettit rpettit at vailsys.com
Tue May 10 11:40:48 PDT 2005


On Tue, May 10, 2005 at 01:18:36PM -0500, Fafa Hafiz Krantz wrote:
> 
> > > We can't just forget about it and pray for it to go away.
> > >
> > > This is an aesthetic violation to FreeBSD's professional image,
> > > that is considered to be more important now than ever.
> > 
> > There is no "aesthetic violation" to forget about or pray over.
> 
> I like to appreciate.
> And it's easier to appreciate something that is CORRECT.
> 
> real memory  = 100663296 (96 MB)
> avail memory = 93036544 (88 MB)
> 
> Looks like it's been written by some Linux geek.
> 
> Real memory  = 100663296 (96 MB)
> Available memory = 93036544 (88 MB)
> 
> Doesn't.
> 
> > As you suggested, I compared these with diff, ignoring the gratuitous
> > spacing modification using "diff -b".
> > 
> > In the end, I don't think I can consider even one of your changes to
> > be an improvement.  The closest you came to a useful change was the
> > capitalisation of "Real memory", but that's hardly necessary, and
> > the accompanying change to the next line upsets the formatting.
> 
> Ofcourse it doesn't improve the functionality.
> And I get the feeling that's what you're all about.
> 
> > In short, I think you should find some other way to pretty up your FreeBSD
> > boot.  As suggested earlier, try "man splash".
> 
> Again, I want it to look correct.

Time to fork your own project - from the postings I have seen from you on
various BSD lists you are going in a direction all your own.

-Rick


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