From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 30 07:46:26 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E8C216A4CE for ; Fri, 30 Jan 2004 07:46:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from clunix.cl.msu.edu (clunix.cl.msu.edu [35.9.2.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 098B943D2D for ; Fri, 30 Jan 2004 07:46:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu) Received: (from jerrymc@localhost) by clunix.cl.msu.edu (8.11.7p1+Sun/8.11.7) id i0UFkN509772; Fri, 30 Jan 2004 10:46:23 -0500 (EST) From: Jerry McAllister Message-Id: <200401301546.i0UFkN509772@clunix.cl.msu.edu> To: pldsoftlist@yahoo.com (Bubble Gum) Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2004 10:46:22 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <20040130065605.9623.qmail@web12907.mail.yahoo.com> from "Bubble Gum" at Jan 29, 2004 10:56:05 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: about logo X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2004 15:46:26 -0000 > > I just want to ask (i'm sorry if it's a silly > question),why freebsd logo use "devil" character? There are several web pages that explain this quite well. Start with the FreeBSD.org page and look at its links and then do some searching - on the FreeBSD site and on Google. Try looking for Beastie. Anyway, it is a daemon and is defined as a little creature (a process in this case) that hangs around out of site and does little errands for you. Some of those errands are responding to things coming in from the net, listening to your keyboard and mouse, putting messages in log files, keeping track of the clock and running things that need to be run at special times, etc. It is a bit like Terminate-and-Stay-Resident programs (TSRs) in the Microsloth world. Why someone made a logo with a red suit and a trident fork - well some say the fork is for the system of forking processes in UNIX but I suspect it was at least in part a little impish fun. Not everything has to have a deadly dull logical reason. ////jerry