why is it called /boot/beastie.4th ?

KAYVEN RIESE kayve at sfsu.edu
Fri Feb 1 17:30:29 PST 2008



On Fri, 1 Feb 2008, Allen wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-02-01 at 22:23 +0100, Oliver Fromme wrote:
>> KAYVEN  RIESE <kayve at sfsu.edu> wrote:

> I thought it was neat, my first FreeBSD release was 4.0 from the
> Powerpak :)
>
> I love how FreeBSD does things like this for historical reasons, I love
> reading about the History, which is why I bought that DVD "20 years of
> Berkeley UNIX" with Marshall. Great DVD and very good if you're a UNIX
> history buff.

sounds like a neat vid.  where'd you get it?

>
>
>>
>> Later the default changed to display "FreeBSD" in big
>> letters instead of the BSD daemon.  But Beastie is
>> still there and can be enabled with an option.  You
>> can look at the beastie.4th file with a text editor.
>>
>> Best regards
>>    Oliver
>
> Wo ist dass? I didn't know it was still there!
>
>
> sehr danke!
>
> -Allen
>
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