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over the years. Starting with FreeBSD 2.0.5, Walnut Creek CDROM covers used the daemon walking out of a CDROM. Starting with FreeBSD 4.5, the FreeBSD Mall used a mirrored image of the Walnut Creek 2.0 image. The Walnut Creek 2.0 image has also appeared on the cover of different FreeBSD Handbook editions.
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I prefer that the BSD Daemon be used in the context of BSD software. That is the reason that I carefully control my copyright of the BSD Daemon image to ensure that the image is not used inappropriately. I have agreed to allow the small image to appear on
Knowledge but not the larger ones. It is also
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also produced two variations of the daemon for its CDROM covers. The FreeBSD 1.0 and 1.1 CDROM covers used the 1988 Lasseter drawing. The FreeBSD 2.0 CDROM used a variant with different colored (specifically green) tennis shoes. Other distributions used this image with different colored tennis shoes
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and however drawn neither scaled easily in a wide range of sizes nor rendered appealingly in only two or three colours. A contest to create a new FreeBSD logo began in
February 2005 and a scalable graphic which somewhat echoes the BSD Daemon's head was chosen the following October, although "the
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worn by the character but this name is strongly deprecated by the copyright holder who has said the BSD Daemon "is very proud of the fact that he does not have a name, he is just the BSD Daemon. If you insist on a name, call him
Beastie."
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apartment after a roommate had "split town" without leaving the combination. In return Foglio agreed to draw T-shirt artwork for O'Brien, who gave him some
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at the time. About four years after this
Lasseter drew his widely known take on the BSD Daemon for the cover of McKusick's co-authored 1988 book,
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inappropriate for corporate and marketing purposes. Lithographically, the scanned
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version 5.x and can still be set as startup image in later versions. It is also used in the
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305:Unix System Manager's Manual
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1121:PS Vita operating system
519:Glenda, the Plan 9 Bunny
730:. The NetBSD Foundation
588:McKusick, Marshall Kirk
543:Kiki the Cyber Squirrel
331:From 1994 to 2004, the
250:, a "bit bucket" named
86:In-universe information
29:Daemon (disambiguation)
953:Marshall Kirk McKusick
871:, from the FreeBSD FAQ
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179:Marshall Kirk McKusick
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556:References and notes
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27:For other uses, see
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157:web site has noted
34:Fictional character
1187:Walnut Creek CDROM
1182:Sleepycat Software
891:2007-09-28 at the
886:BSD Daemon Gallery
869:The red guy's name
683:2016-12-20 at the
538:Mozilla Foundation
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478:screensaver
403:ASCII image
230:snaps of a
220:Phil Foglio
67:Phil Foglio
60:Designed by
1281:Categories
1228:BSD Daemon
1213:Comparison
860:FreeBSD's
784:2007-03-01
759:2008-04-21
734:2008-04-24
256:caricature
159:Evi Nemeth
102:BSD Daemon
40:BSD Daemon
1223:Licensing
1197:iXsystems
1175:Companies
1126:Full list
1057:MirOS BSD
943:Bob Fabry
601:March 11,
467:ASCII art
450:<----'
435:<----.
317:Lucasfilm
295:animation
264:Bell Labs
252:/dev/null
175:copyright
169:Copyright
151:processes
127:Unix-like
1256:Category
1102:bridgeOS
1062:Junos OS
1030:GhostBSD
963:Bill Joy
889:Archived
753:Archived
681:Archived
484:See also
368:line art
356:blowfish
298:director
228:Polaroid
183:Bill Joy
91:Nickname
1266:Commons
1218:History
1097:watchOS
1082:audioOS
1037:OpenBSD
1025:FreeBSD
800:Beastie
529:OpenBSD
471:FreeBSD
420:/ / |
363:FreeBSD
344:OpenBSD
224:Chicago
214:History
187:Solaris
155:FreeBSD
147:forking
143:trident
135:Beastie
106:Beastie
94:Beastie
1233:Lumina
1162:Ultrix
1157:TrueOS
1147:BSD/OS
1142:386BSD
1087:iPadOS
1067:Darwin
1042:NetBSD
1018:Active
936:People
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638:Ultrix
618:Usenix
506:kernel
454:______
445:) \) /
431:`-^--'
333:NetBSD
309:USENIX
272:Usenix
232:PDP-11
153:. The
110:mascot
1152:SunOS
1072:macOS
998:Lynne
510:Konqi
504:Linux
465:This
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416:/\/ \
396:shoes
392:Chuck
352:Puffy
248:forks
240:pipes
131:demon
1092:tvOS
1000:and
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657:ISBN
603:2022
441:O)))
361:The
354:, a
348:halo
313:CSRG
268:UNIX
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