From owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 29 03:07:31 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 88B5216A4CE; Mon, 29 Nov 2004 03:07:31 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp2.server.rpi.edu (smtp2.server.rpi.edu [128.113.2.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E1CC43D2F; Mon, 29 Nov 2004 03:07:31 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from drosih@rpi.edu) Received: from [128.113.24.47] (gilead.netel.rpi.edu [128.113.24.47]) by smtp2.server.rpi.edu (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id iAT37SCS011946; Sun, 28 Nov 2004 22:07:29 -0500 Mime-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <200411290132.iAT1WAse056942@repoman.freebsd.org> References: <200411290132.iAT1WAse056942@repoman.freebsd.org> Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2004 22:07:28 -0500 To: Scott Long , src-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org From: Garance A Drosihn Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" X-CanItPRO-Stream: default X-RPI-SA-Score: undef - spam-scanning disabled X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . canit . ca) Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/boot/i386/loader Makefile loader.rc X-BeenThere: cvs-all@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: CVS commit messages for the entire tree List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 03:07:31 -0000 At 1:32 AM +0000 11/29/04, Scott Long wrote: > > Log: > 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. Huh. I liked the idea of a menu of options there. I could do without the beastie image, and thus maybe have a much shorter menu. And I think the timer would work better at the top, so that the *first* thing you read is how to pause the timer. But I liked the idea of the menu there, with a few common options. I even listed that as "one of the nice things added to 5.3" (compared to 4.x- series) at some recent presentations... -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu