BSD logo

[b. f.]

> >> I have always been thinking of trying FreeBSD but as a Christian I get
> >> deterred by its un-Christian
> >> logo.

It's amazing how exercised people get over a topic like this, like in
that old story:

http://www.milk.com/true-stories/unix_for_the_masses.html

I think it's a pretty dumb logo myself, but a group of people that
offer you free software, and even some help using it -- that doesn't
seem benign to you?  Why don't you talk to some of the other
Christians involved in the project, like those that maintain bible
study software in FreeBSD Ports?

...

> The term "daemon" has ancient
>roots in Greek mythology and has nothing to do with more recent Christian
>notions of "demons".

Well, "nothing to do with" is overstating the case a bit.  There are
some connections, even beyond the etymological, and not all Greeks
thought alike about them.  But we take your point.

...

>I was a member of a military unit known as the Red Devils years ago.  I
>did not feel like I was being corrupted by Evil.

Some people would find this a lot more problematic than wearing a
daemon t-shirt.  ;) Out of curiosity, Is that the one that got its ass
kicked at Pearl Harbor and Wake Island, or the one that got its ass
kicked at Arnhem?  Or just a hardcore bunch of Man U. fans?

...

>You stick to your holy water, I'll stick to defenestrating virgins,

That seems like a waste of a perfectly good virgin.

>sacrificing goats and chanting the Lord's prayer backwards whilst
>dancing naked in a pentagram.
>I find it's the only way to get FreeBSD to work....

I knew I was missing something.

b.