Re: FreeBSD birthday date

[Dag-Erling Smørgrav]

Dmitriy Demidov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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
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Re: FreeBSD birthday date

[Dan Langille]

On Nov 16, 2008, at 8:53 AM, Dmitriy Demidov wrote:


Hi all

I did not found this information on www.freebsd.org and google also  
did not
told me any correct date, so I just wanna to make a clear and ask -  
is there

any official date of birth for "Beastie" :)

http://www.freebsd.org/releases/
says that it is a "1.0 (November, 1993)"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freebsd
says that: "The first official release was FreeBSD 1.0 in December  
1993"


In the same time meetBSD California 2008 is sheduled for November 15th

So, is it that 15.11.1993 is the official birthday date? =)


Consider that it's a weekend.  Consider MeetBSD is schedule after LISA  
2008,

by design.

The rest is left as an exercise for the reader.

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