From owner-cvs-src@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 30 02:21:57 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: cvs-src@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7AD1A16A4CE for ; Tue, 30 Nov 2004 02:21:57 +0000 (GMT) Received: from ms-smtp-04-eri0.ohiordc.rr.com (ms-smtp-04-smtplb.ohiordc.rr.com [65.24.5.138]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 014CC43D1F for ; Tue, 30 Nov 2004 02:21:57 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dzerkel@columbus.rr.com) Received: from [192.168.2.29] (dhcp065-024-056-219.columbus.rr.com [65.24.56.219])iAU2LsHH010474 for ; Mon, 29 Nov 2004 21:21:54 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <41ABD95A.7010202@columbus.rr.com> Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 21:22:18 -0500 From: "Danny J. Zerkel" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.9 (X11/20041123) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cvs-src@freebsd.org References: <20041129120137.C94FF16A4D9@hub.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20041129120137.C94FF16A4D9@hub.freebsd.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: Symantec AntiVirus Scan Engine Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/boot/i386/loader Makefile loader.rc X-BeenThere: cvs-src@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: CVS commit messages for the src tree List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 02:21:57 -0000 cvs-src-request@freebsd.org wrote: >Send cvs-src mailing list submissions to > cvs-src@freebsd.org > >To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/cvs-src >or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > cvs-src-request@freebsd.org > >You can reach the person managing the list at > cvs-src-owner@freebsd.org > >When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific >than "Re: Contents of cvs-src digest..." > > >Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: cvs commit: src/sys/boot/i386/loader Makefile loader.rc > (Frank Mayhar) > 2. Re: cvs commit: src/sys/boot/i386/loader Makefile loader.rc > (Poul-Henning Kamp) > 3. Re: cvs commit: src/sys/boot/i386/loader Makefile loader.rc > (Scott Long) > 4. cvs commit: src/usr.bin/make Makefile lst.h > src/usr.bin/make/lst.lib lstAppend.c lstAtEnd.c lstAtFront.c > lstClose.c lstConcat.c lstDatum.c lstDeQueue.c lstDestroy.c > lstDupl.c lstEnQueue.c lstFind.c lstFindFrom.c lstFirst.c ... > (Hartmut Brandt) > 5. Re: cvs commit: src/sys/boot/i386/loader Makefile loader.rc > (Gleb Smirnoff) > 6. Re: cvs commit: src/sys/boot/i386/loader Makefile loader.rc > (Mike Silbersack) > 7. cvs commit: src/sys/boot/i386/loader Makefile (Ruslan Ermilov) > 8. cvs commit: src/sbin/mount mntopts.h mount.8 mount.c > src/sbin/mount_std mount_std.8 (Ruslan Ermilov) > 9. Re: cvs commit: src/sys/boot/i386/loader Makefile loader.rc > (Alexey Dokuchaev) > 10. Re: cvs commit: src/sys/boot/i386/loader Makefile loader.rc > (Roman Kurakin) > 11. cvs commit: src/lib/libc/sys mount.2 statfs.2 > src/share/man/man7 security.7 src/share/man/man9 vfs_mount.9 > (Ruslan Ermilov) > 12. Re: cvs commit: src/sys/boot/i386/loader Makefile loader.rc > (Robert Watson) > 13. cvs commit: src/sys/boot/pc98/btx/btx btx.S (Takahashi Yoshihiro) > 14. cvs commit: src/sys/boot/pc98/loader Makefile > (Takahashi Yoshihiro) > 15. cvs commit: src/bin/ps ps.1 (Robert Watson) > > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- > >Message: 1 >Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2004 22:34:55 -0800 (PST) >From: Frank Mayhar >Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/boot/i386/loader Makefile loader.rc >To: Scott Long >Cc: cvs-src@freebsd.org >Message-ID: <200411290634.iAT6YtCm039835@realtime.exit.com> >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII > >Scott Long wrote: > > >> Disable the beastie menu. It offends some and annoys everyone else, and I'm >> frankly tired of the controversy. When people ask me why FreeBSD isn't user- >> friendly, I'll tell them that I tried. RIP. >> >> > >Dammit, Scott, some of us would have liked to keep it, seeing as how we consider those >offended and/or annoyed to be not worth our attention. > >Bring it back. At the very least make it so that we can turn it on if we want. > >And to those who are offended or annoyed by the beastie menu: Get a clue, learn a thing >or two and go hack it out if you hate it so damned much. It's not like you don't have >the source sitting there in front of you. (Better yet, learn that a text image of a >_cartoon_ isn't going to eat your soul.) This is particularly directed at the guy who >was so concerned about getting in trouble with his fellow believers-in-myths that he >whined to the mailing list rather than taking the trouble to fix it himself. > >(Stijn, personally I think that those "unfortunate questions" are worthy only of >being ignored. Scott, I would be happy to pick it up; shoot me a pointer to your bits >and pieces and I'll hack something together.) > >Tempest, meet teapot. > >Sorry, I've just had way too damned much of the "Christian morality" shoved in my face >lately. If these people want to believe that the Devil lives in their computer, let >them. > > Now that everybody is talking about it, and it might go away, I'm looking at how to turn on the color! Bring it back! I used to have a beastie splash screen, back in the day and missed it. I was very happy to have it come back, even if just in ASCII, with such great functionality. My vote -- yea Danny J. Zerkel dzerkel@columbus.rr.com