juiced79

Hello, I have a compaq laptop where recently it hangs on the vista splash screen for about 5 minutes. After that it runs fine. On every boot however it does hang on the splash screen for this alloted time. Any ideas. What exactly loads during the splash- device drivers?

Really? I remember reading on slashdot that they are dropping it. They could still help develop it but I wouldn't see much incentive for them to do so. http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/10/15/0057203

Hey whats up peeps, I hope I'm not ruining these boards by being one of many g4's to try a different forum. Besides you guys have a linux board. SWEET!! I remember years back I used Beehive linux (now defunct, but claimed to be an I686 derevitive of redhat) Among the many annoying default options 1)no write access to /dev/null 2)a user add script that has passwords expire after 7 days! and 3)limiting passwords to 3 to 8 characters It did echo back the passwords w/ asteriks. How did it do this? It was mentioned to me /etc/login.defs and alter a line "getpass_asteriks 1" I don't have that