Sometimes I like to be flooded by dozens of screens full of startup
messages: when the system is working, usually.
Take a look at your next Linux
boot, for example. It's something magical that there are so many things
happening on the background, so much code running, so much effort put
to test every single time you boot up your computer. And all that
effort wants in exchange is to say hi to you, to get some of your
attention - with a cold, flat message, displayed in one also cold,
dark, plain-text screen:
Takes some time to see the true beautiness of it all - they're not just
cryptical messages spit out by some
dirty-fat-old-big-bearded-stinky-kernel-hacker - their code is trying
to talk with you, in a language, even if poor, beautiful. It's trying
to tell you what's happening, and if even if you're not interested,
after all, the system is working fine, if you stop for a minute to
appreciate that, you'll see that, sometimes, user-friendliness hides
too much from the hard work these guys did so you, today, could use
your computer to do your work, chat with your friends, and even spew
bile on your blog trashing their poor usability and user-friendliness.
These messages are there, sometimes, so you can remember them. All the
system hackers, developers, architects, evangelists, politics, lawyers,
advocates, users, bashers, lovers, yuppies, hippies, geeks, freaks - in
sum, everyone who has, in his particular way, contributed so you could
be here today reading this post.
Thank you guys, for all your hard work, for your dedication, and for finally seeing this someday:
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