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Date:      Thu, 10 Feb 2005 20:51:01 +1100
From:      David Gerard <fun@thingy.apana.org.au>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Please don't change Beastie to another crap logo such asNetBSD!!!
Message-ID:  <20050210095101.GD21722@thingy.apana.org.au>
In-Reply-To: <20050210094023.GA21722@thingy.apana.org.au>
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David Gerard (fun@thingy.apana.org.au) [050210 20:41]:

> I'd rather see effort towards some of the really *stupid* bugs in 5.x that
> languish for months with a fix included. Like linux-pango being broken,
> meaning that by default you can't actually run a lot of recent Linux
> binaries (a Thunderbird nightly got me on that one). Or /etc/fstab allowing
> msdos as a disk type but fsck not, and the fsck refusing to accept the fix
> despite the system inconsistency. *Stupid* little things like that are
> actually the most distressing thing about 5.x - I use FreeBSD because it
> mostly does The Right Thing.


I meant, of course, the fsck.c maintainer. I certainly do not wish to call
someone a fsck ;-) and apologise for any offence given!

If the "new logo" doesn't have horns then it will be prima facie evidence
that FreeBSD has been taken over by fsckwits.


- d.




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