FreeBSD Renames “Master Boot Record” to “Main Boot Record”

How many boot records are there?

Seems like a straightforward change, in my experience everybody uses the initials "MBR" anyway. It shouldn't really introduce a lot of confusion.

I wish we could discuss these changes rationally on this website, but I predict that this thread is going to turn into an embarrassing flamewar in about 3 minutes.

One for each partition, plus one more at the beginning of the disk: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volume_boot_record

For instance, if you have a disk with Windows, FreeBSD, and Linux partitions, each partition has its own boot sector that loads its own boot loader, and the MBR loads one of those. (Generally it's a tiny piece of code that could come from any of the OSes that looks at which partition is marked bootable, loads the boot sector for that partition, and execs it.)

This is absolute craziness, especially when far more offensive terms are used throughout (the devil logo, demons, gimp, git, execute, terminal, disabled).

"The gimp executable" is far far more off-sounding then "master boot record."