This deliberate decision leads to the point, that the average user (the one that is meant to have a benefit from this "feature") sits in front of a blackscreen and does not have any chance to know what could be wrong, if (as has happened) an update breaks kernel-module-dependencies or a comparable severe problem apears.
I had more then one user asking me, what could this be and all i could tell them is: press esc while the crude 3 second GRUB loading - message appeares and try to boot failsave. Of course I can hack GRUB and menu.lst - most human beings cannot and it is absurd, to say: "we change something to please users, that are absolutely not interested in what their computer is doing how" and then to say: "hack some root-only configfiles if you dislike that." In Suse one can hit esc to make the bootmessages appear - in Ubuntu you can do nothing but to hack (given, the system starts at all). The decision is wrong, hiding the messages does not help anybody but can lead to trouble. Another point: if a user installs lots of apps without caring too much, he/she could easily install a LAMP or an ftp-server that starts by default. Thus there would be another linuxbox on the net with an uneeded, unmaintained webserver running and how should the user know, that it is started, if he/she is not informed at boot. This is a serious matter, I evangelized for Dapper amongst my friends, family and my customers but I will not give a single edgy-CD nor recommend to install edgy to any user, that want to switch from MSWin, as long as this irrational settings are not changed. -- bootsplash fails to show important messages in edgy https://launchpad.net/bugs/61678 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
