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Richard

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From: Venezuela

Registered: 2017-04-23

Posts: 4  

Strange symbol in Devuan grub menu?

I installed Devuan 2 Ascii on i386 netbook.

I'm curious to know what the symbol is that appears in the grub menu beside the other distro that is installed. The distro is MX Linux, a Debian based distro that boots SysV init.

My question is why does there appear what looks like a BSD symbol beside MX Linux?
Is it an attempt to be humorous, to show what looks like a devil beside MX?

Is this infantile humor carried over into the rest of the distro?
It sure doesn't show Devuan in the best light.
Seems a bit petty after all the work you have done to fork Debian away from systemd?

Last edited by Richard (2018-06-15 00:27:49)

golinux

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Registered: 2016-11-25

Posts: 3,316  

Re: Strange symbol in Devuan grub menu?

Good grief.  You do have an overactive imagination.  It a GNU and quite harmless.

It indicates other Linux distros in a generic way if a specific icon is not available.

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devuser

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Registered: 2018-04-30

Posts: 176  

Re: Strange symbol in Devuan grub menu?

Please someone remind me to add derogatory icons for all other systems to the boot menu if i ever happen to release an OS. I like this idea

Richard

Member

From: Venezuela

Registered: 2017-04-23

Posts: 4  

Re: Strange symbol in Devuan grub menu?

I suppose you're right, GoLinux, I probably am over-reacting.
I added a foto of the boot screen.
Seems a bit weird, probably the netbook screen.
Surely wasn't expecting that.

Installed with no problems.
I expected incremental improvements and you haven't disappointed.
Congratulations on a job well done.

devuser

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Registered: 2018-04-30

Posts: 176  

Re: Strange symbol in Devuan grub menu?

Don't worry. People here seem generally very friendly towards other distributions. Haven't seen a single snide remark yet. Not even any jokes regarding the usual stereotypes.