Why all the fancy ASCII art in the boot loader?

[Polytropon]

On Sun, 22 Feb 2015 16:44:22 +0000, opendaddy at hushmail.com wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> Why all the fancy ASCII art in the boot loader? Every time I boot
> I'm distracted by it. Feels like I'm reading an 80s e-zine.

It's easy to switch those off, and even the delay (mostly
unneccessary). Add those to /boot/loader.conf:

	autoboot_delay="1"
	beastie_disable="YES"

You still have the option to interrupt booting at this
early stage.



> Can't we be more like OpenBSD and keep things simple?
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KISS_principle

FreeBSD's configuration mechanism for the boot loader
easily allows that. :-)



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