From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 1 21:45:29 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EDB5316A419 for ; Fri, 1 Feb 2008 21:45:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dan@langille.org) Received: from supernews.unixathome.org (supernews.unixathome.org [216.168.29.4]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA3BA13C44B for ; Fri, 1 Feb 2008 21:45:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dan@langille.org) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by supernews.unixathome.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D63641703E; Fri, 1 Feb 2008 21:26:31 +0000 (GMT) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at unixathome.org Received: from supernews.unixathome.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (supernews.unixathome.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id VMmfu4YVEVzj; Fri, 1 Feb 2008 21:26:29 +0000 (GMT) Received: from afiliascx2.afilias.com (ismtp.afilias.com [216.217.55.254]) by supernews.unixathome.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 929941703A; Fri, 1 Feb 2008 21:26:26 +0000 (GMT) Message-ID: <47A38E6D.1090705@langille.org> Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2008 16:26:05 -0500 From: Dan Langille Organization: The FreeBSD Diary User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (X11/20071207) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG, kayve@sfsu.edu References: <200802012123.m11LNV3s061230@lurza.secnetix.de> In-Reply-To: <200802012123.m11LNV3s061230@lurza.secnetix.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Subject: Re: why is it called /boot/beastie.4th ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2008 21:45:30 -0000 Oliver Fromme wrote: > KAYVEN RIESE wrote: > > you guys are meanies! beasties even! > > I'm not sure if your question is meant to be serious > or not, but I'll try to give a serious answer anyway. > I'm working on that file right now. :-) > > Basically the name is kept for historical reasons. > > When the forth-implemented boot menu was introduced, > the forth file displayed that menu alongside an ASCII > picture of the BSD daemon [1] mascot which is commonly > called "Beastie" [2]. Therefore that forth file got > the name beastie.4th. For those that may not notice it: beastie sounds like BSD -- Dan Langille BSDCan - The Technical BSD Conference : http://www.bsdcan.org/ PGCon - The PostgreSQL Conference: http://www.pgcon.org/