Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 27th Oct 2008 14:36 UTC, submitted by Rahul
For a long time now, GNU/Linux distributions have been criticised by desktop and laptop users for starting up too slowly. More recently, within the Fedora community particularly, there have been increasing numbers of complaints about the amount of 'flicker' that happens as the system switches from Grub to RHGB to GDM, etc. Fedora 10 is going to change all of that, and to talk us through this feature, Adam Jackson, Red Hat Desktop Engineer, agreed to an interview.
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2006-01-16
Regardless if you want a fancy boot or not: IMHO it is the right thing to give the kernel control about the graphics mode. There are many advantages of this and also of graphics memory organization inside the kernel.
Fedora as a major Linux distribution is heavily pushing this. It helps to push further development in that area, for example support for other graphics hardware as well, perhaps even directly by nvidia. This is much more important than the fancy boot itself.
Edited 2008-10-27 20:08 UTC