>Number: 176033 >Category: misc >Synopsis: FreeBSD should not greet you with "yo" >Confidential: no >Severity: non-critical >Priority: low >Responsible: freebsd-bugs >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: change-request >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Mon Feb 11 16:30:00 UTC 2013 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: Andreas Gustafsson >Release: 9.1 >Organization: >Environment: FreeBSD 9.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 9.1-RELEASE #0 r243825: Tue Dec 4 09:23:10 UTC 2012 [email protected]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64 >Description: I don't use FreeBSD on a regular basis, but I recently needed to test a piece of hardware with it, so I downloaded FreeBSD-9.1-RELEASE-amd64-dvd1.iso and booted it.
I was greeted by a splash screen featuring some ASCII art resembling a naval mine and sprinkled with the lowercase letters "s", "o", and "y" in seemingly random places, with one pair of letters forming a "yo". This left me confused as to whether I was suffering from random screen corruption, lacking some line drawing character set needed to render the art correctly, or if the splash screen was actually supposed to look like that. I suppose it was, because googling I found screenshots showing the same thing, for example at http://www.ruchirablog.com/how-to-install-freebsd-on-a-kvm-vps/ . But in any case, FreeBSD would surely make a more professional and less confusing first impression if the letters were replaced by, for example, some artfully chosen punctuation. >How-To-Repeat: Boot FreeBSD-9.1-RELEASE-amd64-dvd1.iso. >Fix: >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted: _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-bugs To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
