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To: "Polytropon" <freebsd@edvax.de>
Subject: Re: Why all the fancy ASCII art in the boot loader?
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Hi,

On 22. februar 2015 at 4:43 PM, "Polytropon" <freebsd@edvax.de> wrote:
>
>On Sun, 22 Feb 2015 16:44:22 +0000, opendaddy@hushmail.com wrote:
>> Hello!
>> 
>> Why all the fancy ASCII art in the boot loader? Every time I boot
>> I'm distracted by it. Feels like I'm reading an 80s e-zine.
>
>It's easy to switch those off, and even the delay (mostly
>unneccessary). Add those to /boot/loader.conf:
>
>	autoboot_delay="1"
>	beastie_disable="YES"
>
>You still have the option to interrupt booting at this
>early stage.
>
>
>
>> Can't we be more like OpenBSD and keep things simple?
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KISS_principle
>
>FreeBSD's configuration mechanism for the boot loader
>easily allows that. :-)
>

That is all good, however, why does this stuff have to be there in the first place? Just seems a bit unprofessional that's all.

Thanks!

--

P.S. My mailbox has been full until today so if there were any additional replies I did not receive them.