What you are seeing/referencing is the output of commands during earlier runlevels; the X server won't start until runlevel 5 (number selected off the top of my head). That said, it'd be good to give users of mainstream Linux distributions like Ubuntu the option to suppress output from the boot scripts.
> That said, it'd be good to give users of mainstream Linux distributions like Ubuntu the option to suppress output from the boot scripts.
Haven't major distros been doing this for years? I only see the output if I press escape, and pressing escape again suppresses it. Otherwise I just see a progress bar/animation.
I don't think that the runlevel numbers are sequential. You can switch between levels (and that corresponds to more or less services running) but you pretty much boot directly to runlevel 5.
Within a runlevel, services are ordered, though (either by an arbitrary integer or by dependency).
Year of Linux on the desktop, here we come!