From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 4 1:26:15 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pooh.noc.u-net.net (pooh.noc.u-net.net [195.102.252.112]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D020E37B41B for ; Fri, 4 Jan 2002 01:26:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from pooh.noc.u-net.net ([195.102.252.112] helo=there) by pooh.noc.u-net.net with smtp (Exim 3.22 #1) id 16MQbn-0005B9-00; Fri, 04 Jan 2002 09:25:51 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Peter McGarvey Reply-To: pmcgarvey@vianetworks.co.uk Organization: VIA NETdotWORKS To: jgrosch@mooseriver.com, Thomas Cannon Subject: Re: The BSD daemon Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2002 09:25:44 +0000 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3] Cc: Matthew Graybosch , Seric@nervevrak.com, FreeBSD Questions References: <20020103210527.26f58607.matthew@starbreaker.net> <20020103180458.T31353-100000@stereophonic.noops.org> <20020103181917.A99475@mooseriver.com> In-Reply-To: <20020103181917.A99475@mooseriver.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: X-EXIM-FILTER: PASS-s02 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I thought his name was BSD, pronounced "beastie". On Friday 04 January 2002 02:19 am, Josef Grosch wrote: > On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 06:05:14PM -0800, Thomas Cannon wrote: > > I've always known him as 'chucky' > > > > On Thu, 3 Jan 2002, Matthew Graybosch wrote: > > > On Fri, 4 Jan 2002 02:56:12 +0100 > > > > > > "Per-A. Braa" wrote: > > > > Hi. > > > > Does the BSD daemon have a short-name? Like the linux penguin Tux? > > > > :) It's a bit long to write to my linux hyped friends that the BSD > > > > daemon looks cooler that Tux. Don't you think? > > > > > > "Beastie" > > I think this is covered in the FreeBSD FAQ somewhere and if it is not it > should be. In the distant past the BSD daemon was know as "Chuck" or > "Chucky". Kirk McKusick, who owns the copyright, has let it be know that > he is not a fan of the name and prefers "Beastie". Out of respect for > Kirk we refer to the BSD Daemon as "Beastie". > > > Josef -- TTFN, FNORD Peter McGarvey System Administrator Network Operations, VIA Networks UK To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message