Bug 70231
| Summary: | Beastie not by default | ||||||
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| Product: | Base System | Reporter: | Hanspeter Roth <hampi> | ||||
| Component: | misc | Assignee: | freebsd-bugs (Nobody) <bugs> | ||||
| Status: | Closed FIXED | ||||||
| Severity: | Affects Only Me | ||||||
| Priority: | Normal | ||||||
| Version: | 5.2-CURRENT | ||||||
| Hardware: | Any | ||||||
| OS: | Any | ||||||
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Description
Hanspeter Roth
2004-08-09 23:40:27 UTC
On Tue, Aug 10, 2004 at 12:39:05AM +0200, Hanspeter Roth wrote:
> The "Beastie" boot-menu makes sense.
> Just displaying such a beastie make reality ridiculous.
> The Beastie should not be displayed by default.
Why would we want to display anything other than the logo which graces
our website?
Ceri
--
It is not tinfoil, it is my new skin. I am a robot.
On Aug 17 at 21:11, Ceri Davies spoke:
> On Tue, Aug 10, 2004 at 12:39:05AM +0200, Hanspeter Roth wrote:
>
> > The "Beastie" boot-menu makes sense.
> > Just displaying such a beastie make reality ridiculous.
> > The Beastie should not be displayed by default.
>
> Why would we want to display anything other than the logo which graces
> our website?
I and probably others don't want to see the Beastie each time we
have to boot an occasionally choose an option from the menu.
The Beastie is not neutral. Such a logo is offending.
-Hanspeter
On Tue, Aug 17, 2004 at 09:00:39PM +0000, Hanspeter Roth wrote: > The following reply was made to PR misc/70231; it has been noted by GNATS. > > From: Hanspeter Roth <hampi@rootshell.be> > To: Ceri Davies <ceri@submonkey.net>, > FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org > Cc: > Subject: Re: misc/70231: Beastie not by default > Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2004 22:54:38 +0200 > > On Aug 17 at 21:11, Ceri Davies spoke: > > > On Tue, Aug 10, 2004 at 12:39:05AM +0200, Hanspeter Roth wrote: > > > > > The "Beastie" boot-menu makes sense. > > > Just displaying such a beastie make reality ridiculous. > > > The Beastie should not be displayed by default. > > > > Why would we want to display anything other than the logo which graces > > our website? > > I and probably others don't want to see the Beastie each time we > have to boot an occasionally choose an option from the menu. > The Beastie is not neutral. Such a logo is offending. > Put beastie_disable="YES" into your /boot/loader.conf, and go on with your life. Cheers, -- Ruslan Ermilov ru@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer On Aug 18 at 09:31, Ruslan Ermilov spoke:
> Put
>
> beastie_disable="YES"
>
> into your /boot/loader.conf, and go on with your life.
This does not hide just the Beastie logo but disables the whole menu
which offers disableing ACPI.
-Hanspeter
State Changed From-To: open->closed Not a bug; we display our mascot because it's our mascot. People who may be offended can either turn the beast off as Ruslan suggested, or apply your patch locally. If you look at the Beastie Boot menu, it's really two parts: the menu itself, and the image. Why not make the two parts independent? It's not like one actually depends on the other. In fact, by making the two independent, you open the door for people to create their own custom logos. What's wrong with that? Ship FreeBSD with the boot menu enabled, the beastie image disabled, and with a knob for putting in custom images. Voila! Everybody wins. Those that just want a menu (which is very useful), can have just a menu. Those that want a menu and the beastie, can have that. Those that want a menu and a custom image can have that. And those that want neither the menu nor the image can have that as well. Why is this such a big deal?? -- Freddie Cash, CCNT CCLP Helpdesk / Network Support Tech. School District 73 (250) 377-HELP [377-4357] fcash@sd73.bc.ca helpdesk@sd73.bc.ca PR 74577 is related but with different default behavior. |
