On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 1:26 AM, Ryan da Silva <rdasi...@greenfield.com> wrote: > Hello, > > > > If someone could pass this suggestion on i'd appreciate it. It's going > to sound a little picky, and probably crazy but I'm an honest and > forward person so I'll just say it. > > > > Someone needs to change the FreeBSD boot menu. The way the word/logo > "FreeBSD" is displayed in large font with, ASCII characters, reminds me > of the 1990`s with BBS`s. Don`t get me wrong, I loved the days of the > BBS. But it`s 2009 and FreeBSD is a solid, professional, > enterprise-grade operating system and the silly ASCII logo is the only > thing that says amateur about the product. I would try to make the > change myself for myself, but i am not a programmer. I love this product > and would like to suggest changing that screen. To what? I don't know. > Maybe instead of the large logo simply put "FreeBSD version XXX, copy > right" etc. Or heck, maybe a color bootscreen like GRUB has in Linux > (from what i've seen in Centos/Trixbox). I am not a linux person. I > think FreeBSD is the way for professionals. But the inner perfectionist > in me HAD to send this ridiculous email in hopes to see a change in v > 7.1 RTM. >
The FreeBSD community welcomes people making the product better, regardless of what they contribute (source code, documentation, etc.). Why not create a new logo yourself and submit it? -- Glen Barber "Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn." - Benjamin Franklin _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"