From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 4 9:15:19 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from femail15.sdc1.sfba.home.com (femail15.sdc1.sfba.home.com [24.0.95.142]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BDFAE37B405 for ; Fri, 4 Jan 2002 09:15:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from daemon ([24.78.16.248]) by femail15.sdc1.sfba.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.20 201-229-121-120-20010223) with SMTP id <20020104171505.BTFH16985.femail15.sdc1.sfba.home.com@daemon> for ; Fri, 4 Jan 2002 09:15:05 -0800 Message-ID: <015001c19543$6540af50$090ea8c0@daemon> Reply-To: "Justin P. Michel" From: "Justin P. Michel" To: References: <200201041523.g04FNr478167@lurza.secnetix.de> Subject: Re: The BSD daemon Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2002 12:15:22 -0500 Organization: J Continuum MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 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 To solve all the dilemma, right from Marshall Kirk McKusick's (the copyright holder on the BSD Daemon artwork) mouth: "Many folks have asked about the BSD daemon's name. Contrary to a myth first started by some advertising droid at Walnut Creek, the daemon's name is NOT Chuck. He is very proud of the fact that he does not have a name, he is just the BSD daemon. If you insist on a name, call him beastie." Regards, Justin | FBSD - Unleash the Daemon! | jpmichel@jcontinuum.ca ----- Original Message ----- From: "Oliver Fromme" To: Sent: Friday, January 04, 2002 10:23 AM Subject: Re: The BSD daemon > Peter Ulrich Kruppa wrote: > > On Fri, 4 Jan 2002, Peter McGarvey wrote: > > > I thought his name was BSD, pronounced "beastie". > > I have never heard this explanation before, but it is so good, it > > should be made "official". > > It already is as official as it can be, since Kirk (the > inventor) prefers this name. > > And by the way, it isn't "his". According to Kirk, it > is neither male nor female. I don't know why people keep > thinking it's a male. There's nothing that supports that > assumption. ;-) > > Regards > Oliver > > -- > Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co KG, Oettingenstr. 2, 80538 München > Any opinions expressed in this message may be personal to the author > and may not necessarily reflect the opinions of secnetix in any way. > > "All that we see or seem is just a dream within a dream" (E. A. Poe) > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message