On Fri, 1 Feb 2008, Oliver Fromme wrote:
KAYVEN RIESE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> you guys are meanies! beasties even!
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.
i've know about daemons for years and years, and i've
known about that "beastie devil" who doesn't go over
so well in texas. i don't why i acted like such a stupe
and freeked out over such a file name.
thx {:}
Best regards
Oliver
[1] http://www.freebsd.org/copyright/daemon.html
[2] http://www.mckusick.com/beastie/index.html
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