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From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
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Subject: Re: Tips on startup
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On 2005-03-01 23:58, Roeland Hemsteede <roeland.hemsteede@gmail.com> wrote:
> I was wondering, each time i login to my FreeBSD 5.3 system i get a
> nice startup tip. Is there a way i can get these tips on slackware
> aswel or is this a FreeBSD only thing?

The tips are printed by fortune(6).  The freebsd-tips collection of
fortune cookies, which contains these tips, lives in the files:
/usr/share/games/fortune/freebsd-tips*

Many of these tips are indeed FreeBSD-specific, but there are also many
that apply to other UNIX systems too.