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

[Frank Shute]

On Sun, Feb 03, 2008 at 06:13:05AM +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
>
> 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?

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 

	
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