The logo at boot (Nakatomi Socrates BSD 9.2)

[Patrick Dung]

Oh I see. I have found that the logo was mentioned in news group org.freebsd.freebsd-chat back in 1997.




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 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local at be-well.ilk.org>
To: Patrick Dung <patrick_dkt at yahoo.com.hk> 
Cc: "freebsd-questions at freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions at freebsd.org> 
Sent: Wednesday, September 4, 2013 11:45 PM
Subject: Re: The logo at boot (Nakatomi Socrates BSD 9.2)
 

Patrick Dung <patrick_dkt at yahoo.com.hk> writes:

> Do you know what is this logo means, or the story behind it?
> I thought the BSD daemon (logo) has been around for many years in the past.

It's a movie reference ("Die Hard").

The Beastie logo is still there, in the /boot directory, if you want it.