From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jan 15 15:59: 5 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from meow.osd.bsdi.com (meow.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.28.88]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E8FE37B69F; Mon, 15 Jan 2001 15:58:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from laptop.baldwin.cx (john@jhb-laptop.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.28.241]) by meow.osd.bsdi.com (8.11.1/8.9.3) with ESMTP id f0FNvA197193; Mon, 15 Jan 2001 15:57:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20010115235513.A802@freebie.demon.nl> Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 15:58:44 -0800 (PST) From: John Baldwin To: Wilko Bulte Subject: Re: One thing linux does better than FreeBSD... Cc: jkh@FreeBSD.org, hackers@FreeBSD.org, Poul-Henning Kamp , Dag-Erling Smorgrav Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 15-Jan-01 Wilko Bulte wrote: > On Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 11:47:15PM +0100, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: >> wkb@freebie.demon.nl writes: >> > Jordan/BSDi have been/are still in contact with folks here in the >> > Netherlands >> > who create beastie artwork (e.g. the 'newsreader beastie with >> > milkshake', the 'forklift / release beastie' are all from their desk). >> >> They weren't very well received. The 3.1-RELEASE and 3.2-RELEASE CD >> sets had the "waiter beastie" graphic (the one on 3.1 had no tail!), >> but by 3.3 WC had reverted to Hosokawa-san's "beastie coming out of a >> CD" artwork. > > Whatever. I just wanted to make the point that artwork does not appear out > of blue sky. And good ideas for artwork are very hard to come by. One needs > good ideas, and then a good artist to do the work. Neither of which I see > at the moment?? > > Wilko > > NB: my all-time favorite is the 2.1-cover that never made it. > The one with "A giant step for PCs" and the Apollo moonlander, the > sneaker footprint and the shadow of beastie. I only have a hardcopy, if > anyone still has the file I'd sure like a copy. It's on the gallery of photos somewhere. Maybe on www7.de.freebsd.org I think? -- John Baldwin -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.baldwin.cx/~john/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message