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

[Frank Shute]

On Fri, Feb 01, 2008 at 10:23:31PM +0100, Oliver Fromme wrote:
>
> KAYVEN  RIESE <kayve at sfsu.edu> wrote:
>  > you guys are meanies!  beasties even!
> 
> I'm not sure if your question is meant to be serious
> or not, but I'll try to give a serious answer anyway.
> I'm working on that file right now.  :-)
> 
> Basically the name is kept for historical reasons.
> 
> When the forth-implemented boot menu was introduced,
> the forth file displayed that menu alongside an ASCII
> picture of the BSD daemon [1] mascot which is commonly
> called "Beastie" [2].  Therefore that forth file got
> the name beastie.4th.
> 
> 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.
> 

The options to enable it are:

loader_logo="beastie"
loader_color="YES"

in /boot/loader.conf

Should be done by default IMO. Used to be until the religious maniacs
started going on about devil worship and other such nonsense.

-- 

 Frank 

	
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