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| Authored by: DannyB on Wednesday, September 05 2012 @ 10:38 AM EDT |
Mean is a trend.
It is time to revisit bloatloaders. I remember using LILO. Then Grub. Then
Grub2.
But it is time to get with how things should be done now.
I would suggest we start by defining that a standard boot partition should be
pre-allocated for the bloat loader and all of its associated software. Let's
keep it small. Let's say, a paltry, 1/8 Gigabyte.
The bloatloader should have support for all modern graphics cards and sound
hardware. This ensures an optimal experience with the 3D animated, textured and
composited boot animations and the beautiful harmonized "ding" sound
that will play once the bloatloader jumps to the loaded OS.
The boot environment should include a full graphical IDE with Unicode support
and support for all modern programming languages.
During bootloader initialization, a filesystem check of the bootloader partition
should be performed to ensure problem free operation.
A small lightweight window manager should be used for the boot environment, such
as Gnome 3 with all of the KDE libraries available for any boot time components
that were written to KDE instead of Gnome 3.
For safety the boot time environment could run some of its own components within
a virtual machine.
A proper boot time environment should also include a hardware optimized
multimedia playback engine with support for a wide range of codecs. That will
ensure optimal playback of any multimedia files that are texture mapped onto 3D
surfaces of the boot animation.
We should consider whether the boot time environment should support a webcam for
facial recognition, and voice recognition as well as fingerprint scanners and
hand/palm recognition.
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| Authored by: mcinsand on Thursday, September 06 2012 @ 08:27 AM EDT |
| In my experience, Enlightenment is much lighter than XFCE, and I really like the
wide range of available themes available from the e17_s
tuff website.
Regards,
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