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

[Giorgos Keramidas]

On 2008-02-03 01:01, Frank Shute <frank at esperance-linux.co.uk> wrote:
>On Sun, Feb 03, 2008 at 01:28:48AM +0100, Dag-Erling Smrgrav wrote:
>>Frank Shute <frank at 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?