Date: Fri, 04 Jan 2002 17:51:50 -0500 From: Wes Baehr <wbaehr@mac.com> To: "freebsd questions FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: The BSD daemon Message-ID: <B85B9C36.1E5E%wbaehr@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <20020103181917.A99475@mooseriver.com>
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I've always heard Chuck Look at this: www.ircXtreme.net/ChuckVsTux.jpg -iWes On 1/3/02 9:19 PM, "Josef Grosch" <jgrosch@mooseriver.com> 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" <Seric@nervevrak.com> 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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