From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 4 23:28:40 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B65A014E0A for ; Wed, 4 Aug 1999 23:28:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id PAA10055; Thu, 5 Aug 1999 15:58:19 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id PAA06181; Thu, 5 Aug 1999 15:58:18 +0930 (CST) Date: Thu, 5 Aug 1999 15:58:18 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Jack Winslade Cc: William Melanson , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Question about the mascot Message-ID: <19990805155817.E5126@freebie.lemis.com> References: <199908042124.WAA08816@cywub.sitel.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: <199908042124.WAA08816@cywub.sitel.com>; from Jack Winslade on Wed, Aug 04, 1999 at 04:24:48PM -0500 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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