Freebsd – the meaning behind FreeBSD bootloader ASCII art daemon letters

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FreeBSD bootloader includes an ASCII art daemon. Is there any meaning behind the letters "s, y, o", or is just a random choice?

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It's just basic ASCII art, much like if I wanted an arrow I could use for instance >---->. They use the character that most resembles the shape they want for the picture they are "drawing" with character cells.

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FreeBSD – Low-Level Disk Access

Disk character devices are equally if no more low level than block devices and are hopefully randomly seekable. One major difference between block devices and raw ones is the former are buffered while the latter are synchronous. That's the reason why FreeBSD dropped disk block devices.

FreeBSD – What’s the Sudo Equivalent for FreeBSD?

FreeBSD does support sudo it's likely just not installed by default. Installation instructions are here, titled: FreeBSD: Install sudo Command To Execute A Command As The Root.

As root:

FreeBSD < 10

# pkg_add -r sudo

FreeBSD 10+

# pkg install sudo

The default sudoers file is located here: /usr/local/etc/sudoers. To edit it and add rules you need to use the visudo command.

$ su -
$ visudo

Then to give a user access to everything as root:

userX ALL=(ALL) ALL

To become root (as userX):

$ sudo -s
-or-
$ sudo -i

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