From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Feb 21 11:11:51 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id LAA28740 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 21 Feb 1995 11:11:51 -0800 Received: from nietzsche (annex1s36.urc.tue.nl [131.155.12.46]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with ESMTP id LAA28700; Tue, 21 Feb 1995 11:11:43 -0800 Received: from nietzsche (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nietzsche (8.6.9/8.6.9) with ESMTP id TAA18993; Tue, 21 Feb 1995 19:51:13 +0100 Message-Id: <199502211851.TAA18993@nietzsche> X-Mailer: exmh version 1.5.3 12/28/94 To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" cc: hackers@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: A "FreeBSD" Daemon? In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 21 Feb 1995 06:10:47 PST." <18879.793375847@freefall.cdrom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Tue, 21 Feb 1995 19:51:12 +0100 From: "wmbfmk@urc.tue.nl" Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > It has been decided here that the 2.1 CD is going to be released with > posters, t-shirts and (if I get my way! :) coffee mugs, all covered .. > > We have the choice to do the same old thing, namely Kirk's 4.3BSD > daemon (it's generally acknowledged that the 4.4BSD daemon isn't > anywhere near as popular with the BSD devotees!), or we can do > something entirely new! We have several professional artists here at > Walnut Creek CDROM and it's well within the realm of possibility for > us to do special pictures of the daemon running, jumping, > pole-vaulting, writing code, servicing a combine harvester, whatever > we think is a particularly "FreeBSD" associated activity. This is all > with Kirk's blessing and has been worked out with him in advance. > I vote for something new! Let's do away with conservatism and create a new Daemon (or at least a new picture using the old daemon). How about some daemons feeding MBA's into a hellpit, or a bunch of daemons litterally bursting out of a computer, sitting on the monitor and running across the keyboard. Marc.