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Date: Fri, 04 Jan 2002 17:51:50 -0500
Subject: Re: The BSD daemon
From: Wes Baehr <wbaehr@mac.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


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