From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jul 4 18:03:14 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 EAEDD16A41C for ; Mon, 4 Jul 2005 18:03:14 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from chuckr@chuckr.org) Received: from chuckr.org (april.chuckr.org [66.92.151.30]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B012043D46 for ; Mon, 4 Jul 2005 18:03:14 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from chuckr@chuckr.org) Received: from [66.92.151.195] (july.chuckr.org [66.92.151.195]) by chuckr.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 28594114A4; Mon, 4 Jul 2005 13:56:51 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <42C979DF.7040302@chuckr.org> Date: Mon, 04 Jul 2005 14:03:11 -0400 From: Chuck Robey User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (X11/20050701) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: tvz1@telkomsa.net References: <30050.165.165.200.79.1120405400.squirrel@webmail.telkomsa.net> In-Reply-To: <30050.165.165.200.79.1120405400.squirrel@webmail.telkomsa.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: Linux move to FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 04 Jul 2005 18:03:15 -0000 TvZ wrote: >>>Hi >>> >>>I am a user of SUSE Linux, and I was thinking of >>>trying out BSD. After reading as much information >>>as I could about the three variants of BSD vs. >>>Linux. On technical merit, I was very impressed. >>> >>>FreeBSD looks like a good stating place for me, >>>but one think about FreeBSD makes me uncomfortable >>>is the symbol/emblem that the OS uses. That is a "devil" ! >>> >>>I would like to know if possible how this came about, >>>and what thinking was behind it. From experience, I consider >>>symbols to be very significant, Historically, psychologically >>>and even spiritually. >>> >>>Best regards >>> >>>Mark >>> >>>PS. Please can u e-mail me on this e-mail sparxz@excite.com >>>when an answer becomes available. > > > As I stated earlier...I'm rather new to BSD...but one of the reasons I > changed fromn Linux -> bsd was merly the fact that I thought the penguin was > more evil than Beasty. Then again...that is just me. ;) I cannot really believe that the above response, with it's obvious self-inconsistencies, was done seriously. On the off chance that perhaps it was, ask yourself, would you really WANT a person who believes that a Penguin logo in and of itself constitutes a good reason to switch, along with us in FreeBSD? I would be embarrassed to admit that such a person is an associate of mine, wouldn't you?. > Tertius van Zyl > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"