Improving the Fedora boot experience

[Chris Murphy]

On Mar 11, 2013, at 2:20 PM, seth vidal <skvidal at fedoraproject.org> wrote:

> On Mon, 11 Mar 2013 21:07:32 +0100
> Lennart Poettering <mzerqung at 0pointer.de> wrote:
>> 
>> Entering the boot loader is something that is a debugging feature, a
>> tool for professionals. 
> 
> I'm mostly concerned with making new professionals.
> 
> We have to make the secret information discoverable if we want people
> to poke and prod around.

Right, because had booting simply worked, instead of a** r8H#@Ig me every 10 minutes, I'd never have become curious about it. 


> 
> If the bioses and systems years ago had been opaque we wouldn't have
> gotten this far.


Please elaborate on this, and define "this far". Apple has had fairly opaque booting for ~28 years, so I'm curious how much farther they need to go.

Chris Murphy