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Date:      Sat, 28 Feb 2015 10:31:31 +0800
From:      Erich Dollansky <erichsfreebsdlist@alogt.com>
To:        opendaddy@hushmail.com
Cc:        Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Why all the fancy ASCII art in the boot loader?
Message-ID:  <20150228103131.0c19c476@B85M-HD3-0.alogt.com>
In-Reply-To: <20150227015057.4E2F3C0431@smtp.hushmail.com>
References:  <20150222164422.D89FCA0168@smtp.hushmail.com> <20150222175145.6b2cb583.freebsd@edvax.de> <20150227015057.4E2F3C0431@smtp.hushmail.com>

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Hi,

On Fri, 27 Feb 2015 01:50:57 +0000
opendaddy@hushmail.com wrote:

> On 22. februar 2015 at 4:43 PM, "Polytropon" <freebsd@edvax.de> wrote:
> >
> >On Sun, 22 Feb 2015 16:44:22 +0000, opendaddy@hushmail.com wrote:
> >> Hello!
> >> 
> >> Why all the fancy ASCII art in the boot loader? Every time I boot
> >> I'm distracted by it. Feels like I'm reading an 80s e-zine.
> >
> >It's easy to switch those off, and even the delay (mostly
> >unneccessary). Add those to /boot/loader.conf:
> >
> >	autoboot_delay="1"
> >	beastie_disable="YES"
> >
> >You still have the option to interrupt booting at this
> >early stage.
> >
> >
> >
> >> Can't we be more like OpenBSD and keep things simple?
> >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KISS_principle
> >
> >FreeBSD's configuration mechanism for the boot loader
> >easily allows that. :-)
> >
> 
> That is all good, however, why does this stuff have to be there in
> the first place? Just seems a bit unprofessional that's all.
> 
yeah, the killer argument ...

Erich



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