From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Apr 5 05:49:12 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id FAA09485 for chat-outgoing; Sat, 5 Apr 1997 05:49:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from tyger.inna.net (root@tyger.inna.net [206.151.66.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id FAA09480 for ; Sat, 5 Apr 1997 05:49:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from caught.inna.net (caught.inna.net [206.151.66.7]) by tyger.inna.net (8.8.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id IAA28946; Sat, 5 Apr 1997 08:50:05 -0500 (EST) Date: Sat, 5 Apr 1997 08:49:38 -0500 (EST) From: Thomas Arnold To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" cc: Pedro Giffuni , chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BSD's Mascot In-Reply-To: <1637.860190691@time.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-chat@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 4 Apr 1997, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > I read some time ago that the "deamons" used by BSD were not so devilish > > after all. The term deamon , in it's latin roots, refers to a higher > > power, good or bad. In UNIX it is recognized that there are good and bad > > deamons. > > Greg Lehey has a synopsis of this in his book. Indeed, they're not > devlish. Urm... If anyones gonna even THINK about worrying about our OS's mascot being red with horns and a pitchfork... and worried about it being called a daemon. Might we also want to rewrite every reference in the manpages as well as tons of source comments and indeed even many standard NAMES that contain the word Daemon? Hell, for that matter, read some of the Microsoft NT Docs. They even refer to daemons as daemons. If someones gonna get wound up over Chuckie they're gonna go through the ROOF when they find an ENTIRE SATANIC Operating System... [ this said with tongue firmly planted in cheek ] Hopefully we wont degenerate into a Political Correctness discussion... what the hell would we name man pages??? +-----------------------------------------------+ : Tom Arnold - No relation to Rosanne : : SysAdmin/Pres - TBI, Ltd ( inna.net ) : : The Middle Peninsula's Internet Connection : +-----------------------------------------------+