Date: Thu, 5 Aug 1999 15:58:18 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Jack Winslade <jsw@cywub.sitel.net> Cc: William Melanson <wjm@gate.net>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Question about the mascot Message-ID: <19990805155817.E5126@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <199908042124.WAA08816@cywub.sitel.com>; from Jack Winslade on Wed, Aug 04, 1999 at 04:24:48PM -0500 References: <Pine.A41.4.03.9908041712090.65536-100000@navajo.gate.net> <199908042124.WAA08816@cywub.sitel.com>
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On Wednesday, 4 August 1999 at 16:24:48 -0500, Jack Winslade wrote: >>> Why is it that the mascot of FreeBSD is a little devil? Some people >>> might relate this to satanism or other evil things. I for one is >>> bothered by this. Is it possible to change this to a more pleasing one >>> similar to the penguin of Linux? >> >> Holy Smokes.... is this guy gonna open a can of worms? > > (Grabbing can of worms and walking toward can opener ... ;-) > > We can go back through history and trace that mascot at least 10 years or > so, most notably on the cover of Leffler and McKusick. > > However (comma) I was recently involved in a discussion, a civil one, of > the popularity of *BSD versus Linux. For some reason, Linux has become > tres trendy, leaving *BSD far back in the dust of the popularity bandwagon. > > One possible reason is just that, the penguin is cuter and fuzzier than > the devil. Not being of a persuasion that believes in the devil/satan/etc., > I am not offended by it, but can see how others may be. In that connection, you should look at http://www.userfriendly.org/cartoons/archives/99aug/19990804.html. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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