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Animate Your LILO
clarkie.mg writes: "Most linux users still see the four letters LILO when booting the PC. It's now possible to have some cool graphics at boot time with the animated LILO. You can even play a game !" Be careful of the French.
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But since I try to reboot about once in a month (due to upgrades), I won't see much of it :)
Now if they'd just come up with something to let me play Missile Command while my system boots... }:)
How about (to make things a little more exciting) if you miss the ball without hitting n (a randomly selected number ) bricks, there is a 1 in 10 chance that your bootsector gets wiped.
It would really help increase average uptimes, as admins would find new and innovative ways to avoid having to reboot.
Linux would reach the tops of the Netcraft uptime chart in no time!
Oh wait! let us play xbill on the boot screen. If Bill wins, the system boots Windows. If I win, I get my Linux back.
Ok, anyone who whines about slashdot reporting this software release should be shot.
I don't mean to sound as if I'm a pointless loser who tweaks the crap out of linux all day (uhh...) but I haven't had my jaw drop when looking at a screenshot for a LONG time (maybe since some early FVWM-XPM release (which later became E (by the way, anyone who bitches about E, enlightenment combined with nice free gui toolkits revolutionized the look of the linux desktop.. but E really gave it flair that many WMs have now.. anyway (too much parenthetical nesting))))
so this is one of those statements like the one on the aalib (ansi) quake page, which says, if you have to ask why, you are not a member of the intended audience
Great, now if there is a problem booting the OS, LILO can say:
"Error: could not boot OS. Do you want to play a game instead?"
That's user friendly.
Hey, I object to the comment "Be careful of the French".
We are just regular people you know, we eat crème brulée every day just like the rest of you, drink expensive red wine while making silly faces as any normal person would, use our regular quota of "Oh la vache!" and "Sacrebleu", have run-o' the mill girl names and our poo smells like rose just like everybody else's
So there!
Look, that's why there's rules, understand? So that you think before you break 'em. (Terry Pratchett)
You lucky, lucky bastard!
I can't even get mine to say more than "LI" =P
Ha ha ha... Thanks for the laugh!
It's a pity that the links posted in the story point to the French version of my pages because I wrote them first in English. If you had taken a minute to try the little button in the top right corner of my pages (the one with the English/French flag), you would have seen that you can easily switch between the English and French versions.
Posting a link to the automatic translation of a page that was already translated from English to French is a nice way to waste your time... (but that's the point of these LILO boot screens anyway, so maybe you are not completely wrong).
-Raphaël
Linux has finally thrown that dagger at the heart of microsoft - Bloatware and Eye Candy.
You are aiming for the same end user as M$ here - this will surely strike fear into the evil empire.
;)
Michael
There is no cryptographic solution to the problem where the intended receiver and the attacker are the same entity.
I fart in your general direction! Your LILO was a hamster, and your kernel smelt of elderberries!
No I have to go out and buy some new hardware I don't need so that the drivers take longer to load, so that I can finish my game of break out before the boot is over. Maybe I could just fragment my hard drive...
here's the page in the preferred language of your browser
But I don't want to see the page written in C++ !
On old Pyramid 90x hardware (anyone remember them?) you could play Space Invaders on the system console, in what was known as the Console Operating System (COS) while the kernel was running. If you played too long, the console buffer would fill and the system would crash.
In other words, when you won, everyone else on the system lost.
is the sense of emptyness in the Linux world that the free availability has brought.
Even Linux needs a place for 64k demos that plays a tune and shows a cool plasma effect while a sinus scroller shows:
"Linux SuSE booter hacked by Triumph Greetings to...
Yha, but if I can't play tetris then what good it it?
hmm... for fun I enjoy launching DDoS attacks against 127.87.42.5
Heh, notice he hasn't posted again?
-Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level, then beat you with experience-
Oh yeah, that surely reminds me of my old Amiga 1000 - graphics, sound, sprites, simple vectors - and all in 1 boot sector! (yeah, I know - the data was on the last track on floppy but it surely looked great...
;)
Who knows, maybe someone will implement it on LILO or GRUB - it will surely be more fun to boot
Hetz (Heunique)
I'm thinking seven dwarves strolling across the screen singing "Lilo. Lilo. It's off to work I go..."
Hot Damn! It's the Soggy Bottom Boys!
LI
(If you don't get it, keep using LILO.)