Re: why is it called /boot/beastie.4th ?

KAYVEN  RIESE <kayve@sfsu.edu> wrote:
 > you guys are meanies!  beasties even!

I'm not sure if your question is meant to be serious
or not, but I'll try to give a serious answer anyway.
I'm working on that file right now.  :-)

Basically the name is kept for historical reasons.

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.

Best regards
   Oliver

[1]  http://www.freebsd.org/copyright/daemon.html
[2]  http://www.mckusick.com/beastie/index.html

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