Booting in the dark
jemarch at gnu.org
jemarch at gnu.org
Sat Feb 20 11:45:10 EST 2010
What I would say to this is that you have people who like to hack
their devices. That's good. However, you and I have to realize
that MOST people just want to buy and use a device. No hacking, no
command line funniness, no piddling with conf files.
I don't think the device is ready for that kind of users. It is more
like a prototyping platform than an end-user gadget. Currently, if
you are not able to use a terminal and to compile your own
applications, the Nanonote is completely useless.
From a development point of view the boot splash screen is a nuisance
that doesn't allow to see what the boot process is doing. For end
users? ok, they will love to have a splash screen. But IMHO we should
get some kind of end-user interface that could be installed in the NN
before to think about splash screens.
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Jose E. Marchesi <jemarch at gnu.org>
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