From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 10 09:51:07 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CAE2A16A4CE for ; Thu, 10 Feb 2005 09:51:07 +0000 (GMT) Received: from thingy.apana.org.au (thingy.apana.org.au [203.12.237.66]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F66843D1D for ; Thu, 10 Feb 2005 09:51:07 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from fun@thingy.apana.org.au) Received: from fun by thingy.apana.org.au with local (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1CzAyU-0007BT-00 for ; Thu, 10 Feb 2005 20:51:02 +1100 Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 20:51:01 +1100 From: David Gerard To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20050210095101.GD21722@thingy.apana.org.au> References: <20050210055117.GA96699@keyslapper.net> <108284711.20050210103325@wanadoo.fr> <20050210094023.GA21722@thingy.apana.org.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050210094023.GA21722@thingy.apana.org.au> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040907i Subject: Re: Please don't change Beastie to another crap logo such asNetBSD!!! X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 09:51:07 -0000 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.