From owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 18 07:01:16 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@hub.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 22DC716A594 for ; Wed, 18 Aug 2004 07:01:16 +0000 (GMT) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.freebsd.org [216.136.204.21]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0350643D4C for ; Wed, 18 Aug 2004 07:00:54 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from gnats@FreeBSD.org) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (gnats@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id i7I70rMj062737 for ; Wed, 18 Aug 2004 07:00:53 GMT (envelope-from gnats@freefall.freebsd.org) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.12.11/8.12.11/Submit) id i7I70rsW062734; Wed, 18 Aug 2004 07:00:53 GMT (envelope-from gnats) Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2004 07:00:53 GMT Message-Id: <200408180700.i7I70rsW062734@freefall.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org From: Ruslan Ermilov Subject: Re: misc/70231: Beastie not by default X-BeenThere: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: Ruslan Ermilov List-Id: Bug reports List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2004 07:01:16 -0000 The following reply was made to PR misc/70231; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Ruslan Ermilov To: Hanspeter Roth Cc: bug-followup@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: misc/70231: Beastie not by default Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2004 09:31:26 +0300 On Tue, Aug 17, 2004 at 09:00:39PM +0000, Hanspeter Roth wrote: > The following reply was made to PR misc/70231; it has been noted by GNATS. > > From: Hanspeter Roth > To: Ceri Davies , > FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org > Cc: > Subject: Re: misc/70231: Beastie not by default > Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2004 22:54:38 +0200 > > On Aug 17 at 21:11, Ceri Davies spoke: > > > On Tue, Aug 10, 2004 at 12:39:05AM +0200, Hanspeter Roth wrote: > > > > > The "Beastie" boot-menu makes sense. > > > Just displaying such a beastie make reality ridiculous. > > > The Beastie should not be displayed by default. > > > > Why would we want to display anything other than the logo which graces > > our website? > > I and probably others don't want to see the Beastie each time we > have to boot an occasionally choose an option from the menu. > The Beastie is not neutral. Such a logo is offending. > Put beastie_disable="YES" into your /boot/loader.conf, and go on with your life. Cheers, -- Ruslan Ermilov ru@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer