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Date:      Fri, 13 Nov 1998 18:20:11 +1030
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        "Mark J. Sommer" <msommer@argotsoft.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Question on the demon
Message-ID:  <19981113182011.F781@freebie.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <199811130431.VAA02799@argotsoft.com>; from Mark J. Sommer on Thu, Nov 12, 1998 at 09:31:14PM -0700
References:  <199811130431.VAA02799@argotsoft.com>

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On Thursday, 12 November 1998 at 21:31:14 -0700, Mark J. Sommer wrote:
> Hi,
>
> 	Just a curiosity really, but I was visiting http://www.unicom.com
> and saw the little (what I thought was the) FreeBSD demon.  Curiously though
> the site doesn't say powered by FreeBSD.  Clicking it took me to the BSDI site.
> I'm just curious about the origin of the little guy.  Is it a BSD thing or a
> FreeBSD thing?  

It's a BSD thing.

> How did he come about?

Long story.  Take a look at
http://www.daemonnews.org/199810/daemon.html for the FreeBSD
perpective, and follow the links for the others.

Greg
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