From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Feb 21 17:54:08 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id RAA21982 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 21 Feb 1995 17:54:08 -0800 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with SMTP id RAA21974 for ; Tue, 21 Feb 1995 17:53:51 -0800 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de with SMTP (5.67b+/DEC-Ultrix/4.3) id AA25845; Wed, 22 Feb 1995 02:52:18 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.9/8.6.9-s1) with UUCP id CAA09100 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Wed, 22 Feb 1995 02:52:17 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.9/8.6.9) id CAA01018 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Wed, 22 Feb 1995 02:31:57 +0100 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199502220131.CAA01018@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: A "FreeBSD" Daemon To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Wed, 22 Feb 1995 02:31:57 +0100 (MET) In-Reply-To: <16903.793388120@freefall.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Feb 21, 95 09:35:20 am Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 922 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > > Let me suggest something along the same lines. Ditch the daemon thing. > > Hmmmm. I'm glad I don't have your mailbox for the next couple of days! ;-) > > Seriously, while I certainly understand the sentiment I don't think > that this is going to fly. ... Linus > Torvalds even expressed some small envy at the fact that we had a cute > mascot like this and Linux still couldn't decide on a species, much > less a specific icon. Just my DM 0.02: Don't ditch the daemon. It's already a known mascot, and everybody i've been showing the CD's loved him. Especially, _by_no_means_ use any US-centric symbol. US is _not_ a generally accepted place of freedom! Some people might have other thoughts in mind when seeing the Star Banner... -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)