Re: Beginners using 1.3
Snow Cat (snowcat@math.csufresno.edu)
Mon, 19 Feb 1996 11:03:57 -0800 (PST)
Clayton O'Neill once wrote:
>
> On Mon, 19 Feb 1996, Robert of the smileys wrote:
> > > Would be nice if at boot time 1.3 printed a message warning about
> > > its experimental status.
> >
> > Good idea, just about everyone reads those messages as they scroll past
> > to make sure everything is as it should be.
>
> This may be a bit draconian, but it should be trivial to make the kernel
> wait for an affirmative input indicating the the person has read the
> message that basically says "This is beta code and might (probably) won't
> work the way you want. You've been warned". I'd make it possible to
> override this behavior with a kernel parameter for those of us willing to
> use beta kernels in production.
>
I don't think it's a good stratagy as it will force some people to avoid
this delay screen rather than bugs. Then, if code is not tested by an
average user, how can we have "stable" versions? How many people around are
using XFree86 3.1.2<beta>?
Besides locking up at boot is not good for unattended systems that are supposed
to reboot after power off or crash.
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