freebsd-advocacy Digest, Vol 249, Issue 4

Heidi Wyss heidi.wyss at nordultra.com
Fri Aug 8 15:10:34 UTC 2008


There's a thoroughly sourced article about Beastie's history on 
Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BSD_Daemon


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>    1. Re: Fwd: Beastie up for "Who's The Next Open Source Idol?"
>       (Chad Perrin)
>    2. FreeBSD in new app from Google. (TooMany Secrets)
>    3. RE: FreeBSD in new app from Google. (Rudi Kramer - MWEB)
>    4. RE: FreeBSD in new app from Google. (Rudi Kramer - MWEB)
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> Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2008 12:08:34 -0600
> From: Chad Perrin <perrin at apotheon.com>
> Subject: Re: Fwd: Beastie up for "Who's The Next Open Source Idol?"
> To: freebsd-advocacy at FreeBSD.org
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> On Thu, Aug 07, 2008 at 08:49:30AM +1000, Edwin Groothuis wrote:
>> Forwarded from -www:
>>
>> -------------------------- 8< ----------------------------------
>> From		Jenna Boller <Jenna at pageonepr.com>
>> Date		6 Aug 2008 20:39:05
>> Subject		Beastie up for "Who's The Next Open Source Idol?"
>> Message-ID	B9343891-1FD7-49D1-9BFF-B5A558EDE27C at pageonepr.com
>>
>> Hi There,
>>  
>> Not sure if you've seen the contest, yet, but GroundWork Open Source
>> is running a competition at LinuxWorld this week, "Who's The Next
>> Open Source Idol?"
>>  
>> "Tux," the reigning champion has been close to the hearts of open
>> source developers for over a decade, but Firefox is currently in the
>> lead. BSD's "Beastie" and the Gnu (G-N-U) are also vying for the
>> title of "Open Source Idol."
>>  
>> We've been taking votes online and at LinuxWorld and also asking
>> people to audition on site for their favorite OSS icon: http://
>> www.youtube.com/groundworklwe
>>  
>> Feel free to ask your fans to keep voting for Beastie - it might
>> become the next open source idol! People can vote here: http://
>> www.groundworkopensource.com/community/lwce08.html
>>  
>> The contest ends tomorrow at 11:59 PM PDT and the winner will be
>> announced next Tuesday morning.
> 
> Hmm . . . they misspelled "daemon".
> 


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