Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2008 17:20:27 -0500 From: Allen <doomnix@comcast.net> To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: why is it called /boot/beastie.4th ? Message-ID: <1201904427.7535.2.camel@Caffiend.org> In-Reply-To: <200802012123.m11LNV3s061230@lurza.secnetix.de> References: <200802012123.m11LNV3s061230@lurza.secnetix.de>
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On Fri, 2008-02-01 at 22:23 +0100, Oliver Fromme wrote: > KAYVEN RIESE <kayve@sfsu.edu> 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. I thought it was neat, my first FreeBSD release was 4.0 from the Powerpak :) I love how FreeBSD does things like this for historical reasons, I love reading about the History, which is why I bought that DVD "20 years of Berkeley UNIX" with Marshall. Great DVD and very good if you're a UNIX history buff. > > Later the default changed to display "FreeBSD" in big > letters instead of the BSD daemon. But Beastie is > still there and can be enabled with an option. You > can look at the beastie.4th file with a text editor. > > Best regards > Oliver Wo ist dass? I didn't know it was still there! sehr danke! -Allen
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