Date: Sun, 3 Feb 2008 07:33:17 +0000 From: Frank Shute <frank@esperance-linux.co.uk> To: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> Cc: freebsd-chat@freeBSD.org Subject: Re: why is it called /boot/beastie.4th ? Message-ID: <20080203073317.GA64281@melon.esperance-linux.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20080203041304.GA5298@kobe.laptop> References: <Pine.SOC.4.64.0802011055540.26188@libra.sfsu.edu> <200802012123.m11LNV3s061230@lurza.secnetix.de> <20080201225214.GA57322@melon.esperance-linux.co.uk> <863asaopbz.fsf@ds4.des.no> <20080203010151.GA62332@melon.esperance-linux.co.uk> <20080203041304.GA5298@kobe.laptop>
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On Sun, Feb 03, 2008 at 06:13:05AM +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > > On 2008-02-03 01:01, Frank Shute <frank@esperance-linux.co.uk> wrote: > >On Sun, Feb 03, 2008 at 01:28:48AM +0100, Dag-Erling Smrgrav wrote: > >>Frank Shute <frank@esperance-linux.co.uk> writes: > >>> Should be done by default IMO. Used to be until the religious maniacs > >>> started going on about devil worship and other such nonsense. > >> > >> No, it was removed because it was butt-ugly. ASCII art stopped being > >> cool twenty years ago. > > > > And the ascii Freebsd that it was replaced with is beautiful?! And > > cool?!! > > > > I like the ascii beastie and you've got no taste ;) > > > > If it were put to a vote, the beast would win by a country mile amongst > > those users with taste! > > Taste... it's always 'taste' in a way or another. > > Since there *is* an option, which interested people can tweak to their > heart's desire, and the source *IS* *OPEN* for anyone to modify on their > own if the option is not enough, can we drop the ad hominem's and move > on with actually *hacking* FreeBSD to make it better? I thought chat@ was the place to hang out when you'd had enough of "hacking"? As for taste, it's due to a lack of taste that we're now lumbered with a sex toy as a logo. If people put half the thought into matters of taste and decency that they do to hacking, the project would be in better shape. Let's remind ourselves that some twit (now *that's* an ad hominem!) actually bothered to write a patch to get rid of beastie from the boot loader in the first place. Why not the option to have the text *instead* of the beast to keep the religious fundamentalists happy? No, that would be too sensible. Keep the text as a monument to somebody's stupidity and a project gone awry....and the bloody sex toy. </rant> -- Frank Contact info: http://www.esperance-linux.co.uk/misc/contact.html
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