Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 09:52:09 +0100 From: Anthony Atkielski <atkielski.anthony@wanadoo.fr> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Please don't change Beastie to another crap logo such as NetBSD!!! Message-ID: <1023983922.20050211095209@wanadoo.fr> In-Reply-To: <200502110316.06495.m.hauber@mchsi.com> References: <LOBBIFDAGNMAMLGJJCKNCEFLFAAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com> <200502110316.06495.m.hauber@mchsi.com>
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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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