From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 1 22:25:52 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B94F16A421 for ; Fri, 1 Feb 2008 22:25:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from doomnix@comcast.net) Received: from QMTA05.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net (qmta05.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net [76.96.30.48]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 38A4B13C467 for ; Fri, 1 Feb 2008 22:25:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from doomnix@comcast.net) Received: from OMTA07.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net ([76.96.30.59]) by QMTA05.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net with comcast id kFcl1Y0061GXsucA50XJ00; Fri, 01 Feb 2008 22:09:47 +0000 Received: from [192.168.0.107] ([76.112.98.207]) by OMTA07.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net with comcast id kN9n1Y00R4UU1wU8T00000; Fri, 01 Feb 2008 22:09:48 +0000 X-Authority-Analysis: v=1.0 c=1 a=vNFPztz0_o8A:10 a=MgLs6EK-hZCldXGZt4wA:9 a=7v3m_g0Bk-Dy7MhFawlyhDwgW48A:4 a=WuK_CZDBSqoA:10 From: Allen To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <200802012123.m11LNV3s061230@lurza.secnetix.de> References: <200802012123.m11LNV3s061230@lurza.secnetix.de> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2008 17:20:27 -0500 Message-Id: <1201904427.7535.2.camel@Caffiend.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.12.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Subject: Re: why is it called /boot/beastie.4th ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2008 22:25:52 -0000 On Fri, 2008-02-01 at 22:23 +0100, Oliver Fromme wrote: > KAYVEN RIESE 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. I thought it was neat, my first FreeBSD release was 4.0 from the Powerpak :) I love how FreeBSD does things like this for historical reasons, I love reading about the History, which is why I bought that DVD "20 years of Berkeley UNIX" with Marshall. Great DVD and very good if you're a UNIX history buff. > > 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 Wo ist dass? I didn't know it was still there! sehr danke! -Allen