From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 4 23:18:21 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail5.sitel.com (mail5.sitel.net [206.24.48.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C1E2D14E0A for ; Wed, 4 Aug 1999 23:18:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jsw@cywub.sitel.net) Received: from gateway.sitel.net (gateway.sitel.net [206.24.48.67]) by mail5.sitel.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id VAA62944; Wed, 4 Aug 1999 21:25:48 GMT Message-Id: <199908042124.WAA08816@cywub.sitel.com> Received: from [10.252.249.17] by gateway.sitel.net via smtpd (for [206.24.48.101]) with SMTP; 4 Aug 1999 21:25:02 UT Subject: Re: Question about the mascot To: wjm@gate.net (William Melanson) Date: Wed, 4 Aug 1999 16:24:48 -0500 (CDT) From: Jack Winslade Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from "William Melanson" at Aug 4, 99 05:14:20 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL20] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > % Why is it that the mascot of FreeBSD is a little devil? Some people > % might relate this to satanism or other evil things. I for one is > % bothered by this. Is it possible to change this to a more pleasing one > % similar to the penguin of Linux? > > Holy Smokes.... is this guy gonna open a can of worms? (Grabbing can of worms and walking toward can opener ... ;-) We can go back through history and trace that mascot at least 10 years or so, most notably on the cover of Leffler and McKusick. However (comma) I was recently involved in a discussion, a civil one, of the popularity of *BSD versus Linux. For some reason, Linux has become tres trendy, leaving *BSD far back in the dust of the popularity bandwagon. One possible reason is just that, the penguin is cuter and fuzzier than the devil. Not being of a persuasion that believes in the devil/satan/etc., I am not offended by it, but can see how others may be. If I were a FBSD marketroid, I would use the image to its advantage, promoting FBSD as 'lean and mean' like the little devil. FreeBSD, A Devil of a System !! Good day JSW To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message