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Subject: Why all the fancy ASCII art in the boot loader?
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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.

Can't we be more like OpenBSD and keep things simple? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KISS_principle

Sorry for the rant.

Thanks!

O.D.