cvs commit: src/sys/boot/i386/loader Makefile loader.rc

[Danny J. Zerkel]

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>   1. Re: cvs commit: src/sys/boot/i386/loader Makefile loader.rc
>      (Frank Mayhar)
>   2. Re: cvs commit: src/sys/boot/i386/loader Makefile loader.rc 
>      (Poul-Henning Kamp)
>   3. Re: cvs commit: src/sys/boot/i386/loader Makefile loader.rc
>      (Scott Long)
>   4. cvs commit: src/usr.bin/make Makefile lst.h
>      src/usr.bin/make/lst.lib lstAppend.c lstAtEnd.c lstAtFront.c
>      lstClose.c lstConcat.c lstDatum.c lstDeQueue.c lstDestroy.c
>      lstDupl.c lstEnQueue.c lstFind.c lstFindFrom.c lstFirst.c ...
>      (Hartmut Brandt)
>   5. Re: cvs commit: src/sys/boot/i386/loader Makefile loader.rc
>      (Gleb Smirnoff)
>   6. Re: cvs commit: src/sys/boot/i386/loader Makefile loader.rc
>      (Mike Silbersack)
>   7. cvs commit: src/sys/boot/i386/loader Makefile (Ruslan Ermilov)
>   8. cvs commit: src/sbin/mount mntopts.h mount.8 mount.c
>      src/sbin/mount_std mount_std.8 (Ruslan Ermilov)
>   9. Re: cvs commit: src/sys/boot/i386/loader Makefile loader.rc
>      (Alexey Dokuchaev)
>  10. Re: cvs commit: src/sys/boot/i386/loader Makefile loader.rc
>      (Roman Kurakin)
>  11. cvs commit: src/lib/libc/sys mount.2 statfs.2
>      src/share/man/man7 security.7 src/share/man/man9 vfs_mount.9
>      (Ruslan Ermilov)
>  12. Re: cvs commit: src/sys/boot/i386/loader Makefile loader.rc
>      (Robert Watson)
>  13. cvs commit: src/sys/boot/pc98/btx/btx btx.S (Takahashi Yoshihiro)
>  14. cvs commit: src/sys/boot/pc98/loader Makefile
>      (Takahashi Yoshihiro)
>  15. cvs commit: src/bin/ps ps.1 (Robert Watson)
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>Message: 1
>Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2004 22:34:55 -0800 (PST)
>From: Frank Mayhar <frank at exit.com>
>Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/boot/i386/loader Makefile loader.rc
>To: Scott Long <scottl at freebsd.org>
>Cc: cvs-src at freebsd.org
>Message-ID: <200411290634.iAT6YtCm039835 at realtime.exit.com>
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>Scott Long wrote:
>  
>
>>  Disable the beastie menu.  It offends some and annoys everyone else, and I'm
>>  frankly tired of the controversy.  When people ask me why FreeBSD isn't user-
>>  friendly, I'll tell them that I tried.  RIP.
>>    
>>
>
>Dammit, Scott, some of us would have liked to keep it, seeing as how we consider those
>offended and/or annoyed to be not worth our attention.
>
>Bring it back.  At the very least make it so that we can turn it on if we want.
>
>And to those who are offended or annoyed by the beastie menu:  Get a clue, learn a thing
>or two and go hack it out if you hate it so damned much.  It's not like you don't have
>the source sitting there in front of you.  (Better yet, learn that a text image of a
>_cartoon_ isn't going to eat your soul.)  This is particularly directed at the guy who
>was so concerned about getting in trouble with his fellow believers-in-myths that he
>whined to the mailing list rather than taking the trouble to fix it himself.
>
>(Stijn, personally I think that those "unfortunate questions" are worthy only of
>being ignored.  Scott, I would be happy to pick it up; shoot me a pointer to your bits
>and pieces and I'll hack something together.)
>
>Tempest, meet teapot.
>
>Sorry, I've just had way too damned much of the "Christian morality" shoved in my face
>lately.  If these people want to believe that the Devil lives in their computer, let
>them.
>  
>
Now that everybody is talking about it, and it might go away, I'm
looking at how to turn on the color!

Bring it back!  I used to have a beastie splash screen, back in the
day and missed it.  I was very happy to have it come back, even if
just in ASCII, with such great functionality.

My vote -- yea

Danny J. Zerkel
dzerkel at columbus.rr.com