Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 23:05:17 -0600 From: "Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." <kdk@daleco.biz> To: "Jason C. Wells" <jcw@highperformance.net> Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: The beastie boot menu. Message-ID: <41ABFF8D.1060200@daleco.biz> In-Reply-To: <FA1860B97FADCA625C68119A@[192.168.1.16]> References: <20041129024602.GA23324@turingmachine.mentalsiege.net> <1101748454.41ab58e61eb88@imp2-q.free.fr> <FA1860B97FADCA625C68119A@[192.168.1.16]>
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Jason C. Wells wrote:
> --On Monday, November 29, 2004 6:14 PM +0100 Rahul Siddharthan
> <rsidd@online.fr> wrote:
>
>> Quoting Adam Fabian <afabian@austin.rr.com>:
>>
>>> Was reading the CVS all list, and it's gone. I, for one, kind of
>>> liked it. It was a bit of a shock the first time, comparing with 4.x,
>>> but it didn't take long to get used to it, and it's kind of useful.
>>
>>
>> It's very useful. And it lives on in Dragonfly, with different ascii
>> art.
>>
>> More evidence that FreeBSD is losing all touch with regular users.
>
>
> What is a regular user? I use FreeBSD quite regularly. I am a
> regular guy
> and I use FreeBSD. Using FreeBSD keeps me, he-hem, regular. I will
> assume
> I am qualified to comment, as a regular user.
>
> The beastie menu is just another level of complexity. It has very
> little to do
> with anything. I had to learn about Forth in order to figure out how
> to turn i
> t off. Learning about Forth is not something I wanted to do. Forth is
> hardly a
> regular user sort of thing. Sure, once I dilly dallied in the docs, I
> figured out
> what was going on. It did take time.
Bah! Where's the hacker mentality? :-)
# cd /boot
# cp beastie.4th beastie.4th.orig
# {editorcommand} beastie.4th
<kill lines 51-94 and close {editor} >
Piece of cake! 8^)
KDK
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