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Date:      Sun, 28 Nov 2004 22:07:28 -0500
From:      Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>
To:        Scott Long <scottl@FreeBSD.org>, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/boot/i386/loader Makefile loader.rc
Message-ID:  <p06200702bdd03f12d895@[128.113.24.47]>
In-Reply-To: <200411290132.iAT1WAse056942@repoman.freebsd.org>
References:  <200411290132.iAT1WAse056942@repoman.freebsd.org>

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At 1:32 AM +0000 11/29/04, Scott Long wrote:
>
>   Log:
>   Disable the beastie menu.  It offends some and annoys everyone
>   else, and I'm frankly tired of the controversy.  When people
>   ask me why FreeBSD isn't user-friendly, I'll tell them that I
>   tried.  RIP.

Huh.  I liked the idea of a menu of options there.  I could do
without the beastie image, and thus maybe have a much shorter menu.
And I think the timer would work better at the top, so that the
*first* thing you read is how to pause the timer.  But I liked the
idea of the menu there, with a few common options.  I even listed
that as "one of the nice things added to 5.3" (compared to 4.x-
series) at some recent presentations...

-- 
Garance Alistair Drosehn            =   gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu
Senior Systems Programmer           or  gad@freebsd.org
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute    or  drosih@rpi.edu



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