From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jul 3 15:43:53 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 D50BB16A41C for ; Sun, 3 Jul 2005 15:43:53 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from TelkomSA87213@telkomsa.net) Received: from mail.telkomsa.net (ophelia.telkomsa.net [196.25.211.5]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B8BF143D45 for ; Sun, 3 Jul 2005 15:43:52 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from TelkomSA87213@telkomsa.net) Received: (qmail 4724 invoked from network); 3 Jul 2005 15:43:52 -0000 Received: from 196.25.69.74 by ophelia.telkomsa.net (envelope-from , uid 81) with qmail-scanner-1.24 (clamdscan: 0.80/557. Clear:RC:1(196.25.69.74):. Processed in 0.04826 secs); 03 Jul 2005 15:43:52 -0000 X-Qmail-Scanner-Mail-From: TelkomSA87213@telkomsa.net via ophelia.telkomsa.net X-Qmail-Scanner: 1.24 (Clear:RC:1(196.25.69.74):. Processed in 0.04826 secs) Received: from unknown (HELO webmail.telkomsa.net) ([196.25.69.74]) (envelope-sender ) by O (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 3 Jul 2005 15:43:51 -0000 Received: from tbnb-165-200-79.telkomadsl.co.za ([165.165.200.79]) (SquirrelMail authenticated user TelkomSA87213) by webmail.telkomsa.net with HTTP; Sun, 3 Jul 2005 17:43:50 +0200 (SAST) Message-ID: <30057.165.165.200.79.1120405430.squirrel@webmail.telkomsa.net> Date: Sun, 3 Jul 2005 17:43:50 +0200 (SAST) From: "TvZ" To: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 Importance: Normal Subject: Re: Linux move to FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: tvz1@telkomsa.net List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 03 Jul 2005 15:43:54 -0000 > > 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. ;) Tertius van Zyl