ubuntu boot screen timing is buggy

[Jude DaShiell]

Having talked with another linux-competent sighted contact about ubuntu 
what he tells me is that on the faster machines there is no such thing as 
a 30 second delay as a ubuntu boot screen displays.  In fact he tells me 
he has managed to get ubuntu installed on some systems and found the cmos 
announcements computers display on their screens displayed slower than 
ubuntu's boot screen did on those machines.  Someone didn't take machine 
speeds correctly into account when the timer was written for that boot 
screen and it's posing difficulties for people with perfectly good eye 
sight too.  Sorry to have to throw cold water on efforts put forth to 
date, but this is something that will continue to pose problems until 
timing mechanisms get replaced by interaction with user/installer type 
characters by means of the keyboard at lest as standard booting happens 
and once ubuntu is installed a user might make a selection to have ubuntu 
revert to the previous time based reboot behavior.  That way the best of 
both worlds can be available.