Date: Sat, 5 Jan 2002 14:06:59 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> To: "Justin P. Michel" <justinmichel@home.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The BSD daemon Message-ID: <20020105140659.C24766@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <015001c19543$6540af50$090ea8c0@daemon> References: <200201041523.g04FNr478167@lurza.secnetix.de> <015001c19543$6540af50$090ea8c0@daemon>
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On Friday, 4 January 2002 at 12:15:22 -0500, Justin P. Michel wrote: > On Friday, January 04, 2002 10:23 AM, Oliver Fromme <olli@secnetix.de> wrote: >> Peter Ulrich Kruppa <root@pukruppa.de> wrote: >>> On Fri, 4 Jan 2002, Peter McGarvey wrote: >>>> I thought his name was BSD, pronounced "beastie". >>> >>> I have never heard this explanation before, but it is so good, it >>> should be made "official". >> >> It already is as official as it can be, since Kirk (the >> inventor) prefers this name. >> >> And by the way, it isn't "his". According to Kirk, it >> is neither male nor female. I don't know why people keep >> thinking it's a male. There's nothing that supports that >> assumption. ;-) > > To solve all the dilemma, right from Marshall Kirk McKusick's (the copyright > holder on the BSD Daemon artwork) mouth: > > "Many folks have asked about the BSD daemon's name. Contrary to a > myth first started by some advertising droid at Walnut Creek, the > daemon's name is NOT Chuck. He is very proud of the fact that he > does not have a name, he is just the BSD daemon. If you insist on a > name, call him beastie." Note that Kirk's wrong here. The abuse of the name "Chuck" long predates Walnut Creek CDROM. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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