Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2008 09:53:40 +0100 From: =?utf-8?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= <des@des.no> To: Dmitriy Demidov <dima_bsd@inbox.lv> Cc: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD birthday date Message-ID: <86prku3f8r.fsf@ds4.des.no> In-Reply-To: <200811161853.44718.dima_bsd@inbox.lv> (Dmitriy Demidov's message of "Sun, 16 Nov 2008 18:53:44 %2B0200") References: <200811161853.44718.dima_bsd@inbox.lv>
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Dmitriy Demidov <dima_bsd@inbox.lv> writes: > is there any official date of birth for "Beastie" [...] > http://www.freebsd.org/releases/ says that it is a "1.0 (November, > 1993)" Beastie is far older than FreeBSD; the idea of a daemon as a mascot for Unix predates even the CSRG BSD. Phil Foglio drew the first version in 1976. John Lasseter first drew what we currently know as Beastie for a book cover in 1984; he drew a second version for the 4.3BSD book in 1988 and a third for the 4.4BSD book in 1994. The 1988 version is the most widely used today. DES --=20 Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav - des@des.no
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