Why all the fancy ASCII art in the boot loader?

[Stephen R Guglielmo]

On Fri, 27 Feb 2015 01:50:57 +0000
opendaddy at hushmail.com wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> On 22. februar 2015 at 4:43 PM, "Polytropon" <freebsd at edvax.de> wrote:
> >
> >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.
> >> 
> >> 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. :-)
> >
> 
> That is all good, however, why does this stuff have to be there in
> the first place? Just seems a bit unprofessional that's all.
> 

I rather enjoy the ASCII art. Look at the grub bootloader on linux. I
think the FreeBSD bootloader is exactly as simple as it needs to be.
Obviously you need to provide for options such as custom booting,
alternate kernels, ACPI, and whatnot.

I would say more about this topic, but it doesn't matter what color the
bikeshed is.
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