From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 12 23:50:54 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA05513 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 12 Nov 1998 23:50:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA05502 for ; Thu, 12 Nov 1998 23:50:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id SAA27910; Fri, 13 Nov 1998 18:20:13 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) id SAA13308; Fri, 13 Nov 1998 18:20:11 +1030 (CST) Message-ID: <19981113182011.F781@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1998 18:20:11 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: "Mark J. Sommer" , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Question on the demon References: <199811130431.VAA02799@argotsoft.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: <199811130431.VAA02799@argotsoft.com>; from Mark J. Sommer on Thu, Nov 12, 1998 at 09:31:14PM -0700 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message