misc/176033: FreeBSD should not greet you with "yo"

[Andreas Gustafsson]

>Number:         176033
>Category:       misc
>Synopsis:       FreeBSD should not greet you with "yo"
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
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>Class:          change-request
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Mon Feb 11 16:30:00 UTC 2013
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Andreas Gustafsson
>Release:        9.1
>Organization:
>Environment:
FreeBSD  9.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 9.1-RELEASE #0 r243825: Tue Dec  4 09:23:10 UTC 2012     root at farrell.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  amd64
>Description:
I don't use FreeBSD on a regular basis, but I recently needed to test a piece of hardware with it, so I downloaded FreeBSD-9.1-RELEASE-amd64-dvd1.iso and booted it.

I was greeted by a splash screen featuring some ASCII art resembling a naval mine and sprinkled with the lowercase letters "s", "o", and "y" in seemingly random places, with one pair of letters forming a "yo".

This left me confused as to whether I was suffering from random screen corruption, lacking some line drawing character set needed to render the art correctly, or if the splash screen was actually supposed to look like that.   I suppose it was, because googling I found screenshots showing the same thing, for example at http://www.ruchirablog.com/how-to-install-freebsd-on-a-kvm-vps/ .  But in any case, FreeBSD would surely make a more professional and less confusing first impression if the letters were replaced by, for example, some artfully chosen punctuation.

>How-To-Repeat:
Boot FreeBSD-9.1-RELEASE-amd64-dvd1.iso.
>Fix:


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