Please don't change Beastie to another crap logo such as NetBSD!!!

Anthony Atkielski atkielski.anthony at wanadoo.fr
Fri Feb 11 00:52:13 PST 2005


Mike Hauber writes:

> Heh...  This gives me an idea...  How about FreeBSD "skins."  The
> Beastie as the default (of course), and dis_ey-type themes for 
> the "weak in the faith".  If FreeBSD's attempt is not to be 
> offensive to anyone, anywhere, anytime, then perhaps it just 
> needs to jump into a different skin for everybody (corporate or 
> otherwise) it serves...  Perhaps a questionare to be filled out 
> in the beginnings of sysinstall would let the system know what is 
> to be considered "appropriate."

This sort of idea betrays the geek atmosphere that pervades FreeBSD and
many other open-source efforts.  It might please geeks installing the
OS, but it only makes it look like a toy to people who are installing it
for serious use.  Nobody sitting in a machine room in front of a rack of
servers is going to care anything about "skins."

-- 
Anthony




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