From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 29 4:26:47 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from relay1.inwind.it (relay1.inwind.it [212.141.53.67]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9494F37BB9E for ; Thu, 29 Jun 2000 04:26:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bartequi@inwind.it) Received: from bartequi.ottodomain.org (212.141.78.154) by relay1.inwind.it; 29 Jun 2000 13:26:35 +0200 From: Salvo Bartolotta Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2000 12:28:42 GMT Message-ID: <20000629.12284200@bartequi.ottodomain.org> Subject: Re: Why? To: "David A. Medeiros" , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <395B229A.D6CD5BD0@mediaone.net> References: <395B229A.D6CD5BD0@mediaone.net> X-Mailer: SuperCalifragilis X-Priority: 3 (Normal) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Original Message <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< On 6/29/00, 11:19:06 AM, "David A. Medeiros" wrote = regarding Why?: > Why is a figure offensive in its caricturization used as the logo for > FreeBSD? Thanks! > David Dear David A. Medeiros, A daemon is an important concept for OSes (in particular, for server=20 OSes): in the picture you will easily recognize the fork(2) reference.=20 I have recently discussed the origin of the word at some length as=20 well as the change in meaning of the original ancient Greek term (ie=20 "daimon", cf "daiomai"): you may wish to search the -doc list for "the=20 word demon". Here I will limit myself to saying that "daimon" was a vox media, and=20 as such it had necessarily no "bad" connotations (cf in Homer, Plato,=20 etc.); those ideas were developed subsequently (cf New Testament). HTH, Salvo To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message