From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 11 08:52:12 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 F0A3216A4CE for ; Fri, 11 Feb 2005 08:52:12 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp11.wanadoo.fr (smtp11.wanadoo.fr [193.252.22.31]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A938843D1F for ; Fri, 11 Feb 2005 08:52:12 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from atkielski.anthony@wanadoo.fr) Received: from me-wanadoo.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mwinf1108.wanadoo.fr (SMTP Server) with ESMTP id 90C5B1C00096 for ; Fri, 11 Feb 2005 09:52:09 +0100 (CET) Received: from pix.atkielski.com (ASt-Lambert-111-2-1-3.w81-50.abo.wanadoo.fr [81.50.80.3]) by mwinf1108.wanadoo.fr (SMTP Server) with ESMTP id 6D8B41C00092 for ; Fri, 11 Feb 2005 09:52:09 +0100 (CET) X-ME-UUID: 20050211085209448.6D8B41C00092@mwinf1108.wanadoo.fr Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 09:52:09 +0100 From: Anthony Atkielski X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <1023983922.20050211095209@wanadoo.fr> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <200502110316.06495.m.hauber@mchsi.com> References: <200502110316.06495.m.hauber@mchsi.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Please don't change Beastie to another crap logo such as NetBSD!!! X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 08:52:13 -0000 Mike Hauber writes: > Heh... This gives me an idea... How about FreeBSD "skins." The > Beastie as the default (of course), and dis_ey-type themes for > the "weak in the faith". If FreeBSD's attempt is not to be > offensive to anyone, anywhere, anytime, then perhaps it just > needs to jump into a different skin for everybody (corporate or > otherwise) it serves... Perhaps a questionare to be filled out > in the beginnings of sysinstall would let the system know what is > to be considered "appropriate." This sort of idea betrays the geek atmosphere that pervades FreeBSD and many other open-source efforts. It might please geeks installing the OS, but it only makes it look like a toy to people who are installing it for serious use. Nobody sitting in a machine room in front of a rack of servers is going to care anything about "skins." -- Anthony