content: User Friendly Annotating dmesg or syslog? Has anyone made a tool to take this type of output: And overlay a simple "Explanation". Like if you hover over the stanza of text, it shows you a modal dialogue that describes what is loading and lets you go read about the hardware and software involved. I'm finding exceedingly it is impossible to keep up. I am trying to stay conversant with both RedHat and Debian way of thinking, but they change shit so often looking at startup logs is like learning all over again every few years. I only understand the part I pasted, for example, because earlier it indicated it was loading the kernel onto the processor. And ACPI is power management for physically-local-internal hardware.