Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2008 22:23:31 +0100 (CET) From: Oliver Fromme <olli@lurza.secnetix.de> To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG, kayve@sfsu.edu Subject: Re: why is it called /boot/beastie.4th ? Message-ID: <200802012123.m11LNV3s061230@lurza.secnetix.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOC.4.64.0802011055540.26188@libra.sfsu.edu>
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KAYVEN RIESE <kayve@sfsu.edu> wrote: > you guys are meanies! beasties even! I'm not sure if your question is meant to be serious or not, but I'll try to give a serious answer anyway. I'm working on that file right now. :-) Basically the name is kept for historical reasons. When the forth-implemented boot menu was introduced, the forth file displayed that menu alongside an ASCII picture of the BSD daemon [1] mascot which is commonly called "Beastie" [2]. Therefore that forth file got the name beastie.4th. Later the default changed to display "FreeBSD" in big letters instead of the BSD daemon. But Beastie is still there and can be enabled with an option. You can look at the beastie.4th file with a text editor. Best regards Oliver [1] http://www.freebsd.org/copyright/daemon.html [2] http://www.mckusick.com/beastie/index.html -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M. Handelsregister: Registergericht Muenchen, HRA 74606, Geschäftsfuehrung: secnetix Verwaltungsgesellsch. mbH, Handelsregister: Registergericht Mün- chen, HRB 125758, Geschäftsführer: Maik Bachmann, Olaf Erb, Ralf Gebhart FreeBSD-Dienstleistungen, -Produkte und mehr: http://www.secnetix.de/bsd 'Instead of asking why a piece of software is using "1970s technology," start asking why software is ignoring 30 years of accumulated wisdom.'
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