I wrote:
Power, speed, and freedom: a wild horse.
Joseph Carter writes:
That's been taken...
Has been taken by... ?
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Dancing Horse Hill
Elmwood, WI
Stampede Linux
On Sun, Jan 31, 1999 at 06:31:52PM -0600, John Hasler wrote:
I wrote:
Power, speed, and freedom: a wild horse.
Joseph Carter writes:
That's been taken...
Has been taken by... ?
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John Hasler
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Dancing Horse Hill
Elmwood, WI
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I wrote:
Power, speed, and freedom: a wild horse.
Erick Kinnee writes:
Stampede Linux
Stampede? I would have expected something to do with cattle.
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John Hasler
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Dancing Horse Hill
Elmwood, WI
Previously John Hasler wrote:
Has been taken by... ?
Stampede Linux iirc.
Wichert.
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On Sun, Jan 31, 1999 at 03:42:06PM -0600, John Hasler wrote:
Power, speed, and freedom: a wild horse.
Just like Stampede has it?
Marcus
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First, we build this large badger...
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Phillip R. Jaenke [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Why a dolphin? Well, they're intelligent. Definitely
intelligent. They're pretty cute. :) And they're definitely
flexible. (I'd like to see *you* burst out of the water, do a
backflip or two midair, and make a perfect reentry.;)
Right, and they
Alexander N. Benner [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
ok .. beat me for this .. but it does not realy meen 'good bye and
thankyou for the fish' ! Dolphins are not more intelligent then paes
or other animals. Intelligence referes also to somewhat of abstract
thinking which no animal has.
Um.
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On 1 Feb 1999, Rob Browning wrote:
Why a dolphin? Well, they're intelligent. Definitely
intelligent. They're pretty cute. :) And they're definitely
flexible. (I'd like to see *you* burst out of the water, do a
backflip or two midair, and make a perfect
Anderson MacKay [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Thu, 28 Jan 1999, Avery Pennarun wrote:
Octopi and ants may also be good, if they have wings.
Octopi with wings? Now -that- is a confusing bunch of appendages, if you
ask me. =)
Squid is a better choice than octopus. Some of them actually do
Kevin Dalley [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Anderson MacKay [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Thu, 28 Jan 1999, Avery Pennarun wrote:
Octopi and ants may also be good, if they have wings.
Octopi with wings? Now -that- is a confusing bunch of appendages, if you
ask me. =)
Squid
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On 30 Jan 1999, Ben Pfaff wrote:
Kevin Dalley [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Anderson MacKay [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Thu, 28 Jan 1999, Avery Pennarun wrote:
Octopi and ants may also be good, if they have wings.
Octopi with wings?
On Sat, Jan 30, 1999 at 10:30:58PM +0100, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
On Thu, Jan 28, 1999 at 05:57:47PM -0600, Anderson MacKay wrote:
The key here is cute. People don't want an ugly chicken-like creature
that is clearly ready to attack at the slightest provocation.
And furthermore, even
On 30 Jan 1999, Ben Pfaff wrote:
Kevin Dalley [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Anderson MacKay [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Thu, 28 Jan 1999, Avery Pennarun wrote:
Octopi and ants may also be good, if they have wings.
Octopi with wings? Now -that- is a confusing bunch of
Previously Anderson MacKay wrote:
Or bite your legs off. =)
Nah, that was a cute little bunny rabbit :)
We could then have conversations like this with our users:
CART DRIVER: Bring out your dead!
LARGE MAN: Here's one!
CART DRIVER: Ninepence.
BODY:I'm not dead!
Wichert.
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hi
Ship's Log, Lt. Phillip R. Jaenke, Stardate 300199.2241:
Why a dolphin? Well, they're intelligent. Definitely intelligent. They're
pretty cute. :) And they're definitely flexible. (I'd like to see *you*
burst out of the water, do a backflip or two midair, and make a perfect
reentry.;)
On Sat, Jan 30, 1999 at 12:53:28PM -0500, Zephaniah E. Hull wrote:
On Thu, Jan 28, 1999 at 10:14:15AM -0800, Chris Waters wrote:
snip
I brought this up on IRC, and got the following suggestions:
1. Dragon (well-liked choice on IRC)
2. Octopus (my own suggestion)
3. Monkey
4. Ant
On Sun, 31 Jan 1999, M.C. Vernon wrote:
On 30 Jan 1999, Ben Pfaff wrote:
Kevin Dalley [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Anderson MacKay [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Thu, 28 Jan 1999, Avery Pennarun wrote:
Octopi and ants may also be good, if they have wings.
Alexander N. Benner wrote:
hi
Ship's Log, Lt. Phillip R. Jaenke, Stardate 300199.2241:
Why a dolphin? Well, they're intelligent. Definitely intelligent. They're
pretty cute. :) And they're definitely flexible. (I'd like to see *you*
burst out of the water, do a backflip or two
Javier Fdz-Sanguino Pen~a wrote:
OK. I was thinking of this a lot the night after my exam (a nice way
to forget I have one ;) .. and I think Debian mascot should in some way
try to capture some of its essence.
I feel some of the essence in keywords of Debian might be:
Javier Fdz-Sanguino Pen~a [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I choose freedom, it's one that summarises it all, and trying to
find an animal that, universally, would give the impression of freedom, I
limited the choice to two bird species:
- eagles,
- hawks
Freedom or death?
Javier Fdz-Sanguino Pen~a writes:
I choose freedom, it's one that summarises it all, and trying to find an
animal that, universally, would give the impression of freedom, I limited
the choice to two bird species:
- eagles,
Fish eaters. Also symbolic of the Roman Republic and the
On Sun, Jan 31, 1999 at 01:50:28PM +0100, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
We could then have conversations like this with our users:
CART DRIVER: Bring out your dead!
LARGE MAN: Here's one!
CART DRIVER: Ninepence.
BODY:I'm not dead!
I'm waiting for someone not to know where that's
On Sun, Jan 31, 1999 at 03:42:06PM -0600, John Hasler wrote:
Power, speed, and freedom: a wild horse.
That's been taken...
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I'm working in the dark here. Yeah well rumor has it you do your best
work in the dark.
-- Earth: Final Conflict
JH == John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
JH Power, speed, and freedom: a wild horse.
Yes! Lets make it a black horse on yellow background and a red
frame. Vrooom vroom. :-)
Ciao,
Martin
Ben Pfaff [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Martin Bialasinski) writes:
Hmm, with a strong enough improbability field, you will see dragons in
the sky.
Dragons and octopi in the sky are Somebody Else's Problem.
Flying Octopi? Sounds like a Detroit Red Wings game...
* Chris Waters (Thu, Jan 28, 1999 at 10:14:15AM -0800)
1. Dragon
Aye!
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On Thu, Jan 28, 1999 at 10:14:15AM -0800, Chris Waters wrote:
snip
I brought this up on IRC, and got the following suggestions:
1. Dragon (well-liked choice on IRC)
2. Octopus (my own suggestion)
3. Monkey
4. Ant
5. Bee
Personally, I think octopi are really cute, they're smart (for
On Thu, Jan 28, 1999 at 05:57:47PM -0600, Anderson MacKay wrote:
The key here is cute. People don't want an ugly chicken-like creature
that is clearly ready to attack at the slightest provocation.
And furthermore, even if it -was- to attack, it really wouldn't do
anything. Linus -was-
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Martin Bialasinski) writes:
Hmm, with a strong enough improbability field, you will see dragons in
the sky.
Dragons and octopi in the sky are Somebody Else's Problem.
*- On 28 Jan, Chris Waters wrote about Call for mascot! :-)
2. Octopus (my own suggestion)
I like this. It would be great for CD covers were each tentacle could
have text overlayed for each architecture: i386, arm, hurd, sparc,
alpha, m68k, powerpc. Well that is seven but there may be more
On Thu, 28 Jan 1999, Darren Benham wrote:
On 28-Jan-99 Chris Waters wrote:
While I'm on the topic of the logo, it occurred to me that it might be
nice to choose a mascot for the Debian project. Some sort of beast that
we can use in the logo and in other Debian-related images. Much as
Edward John M. Brocklesby [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I don't think so - Octopi can't fly!
Someone who obviously hasn't read RFC 1925...
RFC1925 asserts that under appropriate circumstances, -pigs- can fly.
It makes no comment on the aerodynamic properties of cephalopods.
--
James
On Thu, 28 Jan 1999 13:44:20 -0800, Joey Hess wrote:
Objet: Re: []
la date: 28 Jan 99 22:03:11 GMT
De: John Travers [EMAIL PROTECTED]
A: debian-devel@lists.debian.org
On Thu, 28 Jan 1999, Chris Waters wrote:
1. Dragon (well-liked choice on IRC)
2. Octopus (my own suggestion)
3.
While I'm on the topic of the logo, it occurred to me that it might be
nice to choose a mascot for the Debian project. Some sort of beast that
we can use in the logo and in other Debian-related images. Much as
Linux has its penguin, BSD has its devil, and GNU has its, erm, gnu.
Debian should
On Thu, 28 Jan 1999, Chris Waters wrote:
1. Dragon (well-liked choice on IRC)
2. Octopus (my own suggestion)
3. Monkey
4. Ant
5. Bee
Ants and Bees are probably the easiest to do cool 3d raytracings with, if
that's any thing. I'd have to take ants. Lots of little creatures doing
their
1. Dragon (well-liked choice on IRC)
Cool. As long as it's a decent dragon
2. Octopus (my own suggestion)
OK
3. Monkey
No
4. Ant
no
5. Bee
no
:)
Matthew
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On Thu, Jan 28, 1999 at 10:14:15AM -0800, Chris Waters wrote:
This is just an idea, and I won't be offended if it's rejected.
I kind of like it...
I brought this up on IRC, and got the following suggestions:
With 400 some odd developers, there are likely to be just about as
many proposals...
*- On 28 Jan, Chris Waters wrote about Call for mascot! :-)
2. Octopus (my own suggestion)
I like this. It would be great for CD covers were each tentacle could
have text overlayed for each architecture: i386, arm, hurd, sparc,
alpha, m68k, powerpc. Well that is seven but there may be more
On 1999/01/28, Anderson MacKay wrote:
On Thu, 28 Jan 1999, Chris Waters wrote:
1. Dragon (well-liked choice on IRC)
2. Octopus (my own suggestion)
3. Monkey
4. Ant
5. Bee
Ants and Bees are probably the easiest to do cool 3d raytracings with, if
that's any thing. I'd have to
On 28-Jan-99 Chris Waters wrote:
While I'm on the topic of the logo, it occurred to me that it might be
nice to choose a mascot for the Debian project. Some sort of beast that
we can use in the logo and in other Debian-related images. Much as
Linux has its penguin, BSD has its devil, and
On Thu, 28 Jan 1999, Chris Waters wrote:
2. Octopus (my own suggestion)
How about Cthulhu? That would also tie into Linuxes world domination
theme. :-)
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On Thu, Jan 28, 1999 at 10:14:15AM -0800, Chris Waters wrote:
1. Dragon (well-liked choice on IRC)
Why not a phoenix?
/me poses for gimp artists being that he'd make a cute mascott... =
(that was supposed to be funny, why aren't you laughing?)
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I'm working in the dark here. Yeah well
On Thu, Jan 28, 1999 at 02:38:49PM -0500, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote:
2. Octopus (my own suggestion)
How about Cthulhu? That would also tie into Linuxes world domination
theme. :-)
Nah, that's the NT logo...
Win95 or WinNT? Why settle for the lesser of two evils when you can pay
twice as
On Thu, January 28 1999, Anderson MacKay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
|On Thu, 28 Jan 1999, Chris Waters wrote:
| 1. Dragon (well-liked choice on IRC)
| 2. Octopus (my own suggestion)
| 3. Monkey
| 4. Ant
| 5. Bee
|
|that's any thing. I'd have to take ants. Lots of little creatures doing
|their
Edward John M. Brocklesby wrote:
1. Dragon (well-liked choice on IRC)
Obviously a dragon is the best choice.
2. Octopus (my own suggestion)
Too complex.
Er, less complex than a _dragon_! Anyone can draw a recognizable octopus,
drawing a decent dragon takes some talent.
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On Thu, 28 Jan 1999 21:04:05 +, Edward John M. Brocklesby wrote:
Yeah, but I mean Octopi are really weird, and you never see them around
anywhere, so some people might not recognise them. Whereas with dragons, you
see them all the time, so they
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On Thu, 28 Jan 1999 21:28:29 +, Edward John M. Brocklesby wrote:
I mean, how often do you see an Octopus flying across the sky?
I can honestly say that I'm more likely to see an octopus fly across the
sky than a dragon.
I don't think so
On Thu, Jan 28, 1999 at 09:28:29PM +, Edward John M. Brocklesby wrote:
I mean, how often do you see an Octopus flying across the sky?
I can honestly say that I'm more likely to see an octopus fly across the
sky than a dragon.
I don't think so - Octopi can't fly! (Unless they
Steve Lamb wrote:
Octopi are real, dragons are mytical. I am more apt to see something
real flying through the air, no matter how improbable, than something
mythical, which I cannot ever see at all.
Well I for one have seen dragons fly. (Dragon kites, that is.)
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On Thu, 28 Jan 1999 13:44:20 -0800, Joey Hess wrote:
Well I for one have seen dragons fly. (Dragon kites, that is.)
Ah, but that is not a dragon, is it? And the picture on that dragon
kite could be a octopus making it, then, an octopus kite?
On Thu, 28 Jan 1999, Chris Waters wrote:
1. Dragon (well-liked choice on IRC)
2. Octopus (my own suggestion)
3. Monkey
4. Ant
5. Bee
Ants and Bees are probably the easiest to do cool 3d raytracings with, if
that's any thing. I'd have to take ants. Lots of little creatures doing
their
Edward John M. Brocklesby [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I don't think so - Octopi can't fly!
Someone who obviously hasn't read RFC 1925...
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James
Never trust trucks
SL == Steve Lamb [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
SL On Thu, 28 Jan 1999 21:28:29 +, Edward John M. Brocklesby wrote:
SL Octopi are real, dragons are mytical. I am more apt to see
SL something real flying through the air, no matter how improbable,
SL than something mythical, which I cannot ever
On Thu, Jan 28, 1999 at 01:35:24PM -0800, Steve Lamb wrote:
I mean, how often do you see an Octopus flying across the sky?
I can honestly say that I'm more likely to see an octopus fly across
the sky than a dragon.
I don't think so - Octopi can't fly! (Unless they flap their arms
On Thu, Jan 28, 1999 at 06:14:17PM -0500, Avery Pennarun wrote:
Octopi and ants may also be good, if they have wings.
Ants with wings would look like termites. Ick...
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Debian GNU/Linux - www.debian.org
Steve Lamb writes:
Octopi are real, dragons are mytical. I am more apt to see something
real flying through the air, no matter how improbable, than something
mythical, which I cannot ever see at all.
Mere nonexistence is a feeble excuse for declaring a thing unseeable.
You *can* see dragons.
On Thu, 28 Jan 1999, Avery Pennarun wrote:
For that matter, how about a flying pig? Then at least outsiders will get
the joke.
If we're going for flying barnyard animals, I really have to go with
flying cows. I mean, I'm sure this is horribly english-language-centric
:), but you've got great
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