Daemon, Devil... woops!

[Roland Smith]

On Mon, Jul 18, 2005 at 06:36:21AM -0600, Ray Jenson wrote:

> I mean, really... a logo depicting a daemon, or even a devil, is just a
> logo. It's not like the Son of the Morning Star is a member of the board, or
> even an executive. It's not like everyone involved with the project are
> Satanists (well, trying to configure the systems with no real prior *ix
> experience has made me say you were all evil so-and-so's a few times, but

You know the saying: "UNIX is user-friendly. It's just a bit picky about
who it's friends are".

> I'm of the opinion that fighting extremism with conformity is
> tantamount to surrender.

Right.
 
> I wouldn't worry about changing the logo. It's "cute" and has all of the
> requisite features a logo should have (distinctive and identifiable,
> attention-grabbing, and marketable). It isn't pornographic or offensive in
> nature (unless you are offended by representations that don't depict nudity,
> violence, or obscenity), and it's pretty well embedded into the BSD culture,
> from what I can tell (and that's not very long, really...).

I'd agree that changing the logo is lame.

> My employees are BSD-lovers. I'm not converted yet. I'm still tapping away
> on my Windows machine to get business done (it's where all of the software
> that I've learned to use and been brainwashed to love is based), 

If you're talking about Office, give OpenOffice (from the ports
collection a try).

> The other question that I had was one of finding BSD CD's or DVD's at
> wholesale. I like the packaging. A lot. Really! I want to have "official"
> media available, because... well, I just don't feel /right/ about charging
> five bucks for burned CD with no panache. I'd much rather charge the same
> prices that other places charge and offer something really
> professional-looking to the router geeks who have been drooling over the
> hardware configurations that I've come up with.

http://www.freebsdmall.com/cgi-bin/fm or http://www.bsdmall.com/freebsd1.html

See appendix A §1.2 and §1.3 of the handbook for more addresses.

> Our cases are red. And no, they don't come in traditional beige or even
> black. And the guts are... not fully supported. I've had to lower my
> standards just a little. The 3DLabs Wildcat Realizm 800 video card is a
> little high-end, I think, approaching vertical. If an engineer wants that
> video rendering card in a BSD box, he can bloody well write the driver
> himself.

Which would be fine with most engineers, if the hardware people would
release enough documentation to make it possible.

This is not strictly a *BSD problem (although some kernel support is
needed for 3D direct rendering). Most UNIXes these days use the Xorg X
server. Any card that has a driver in Xorg works on all OSs that run Xorg.

Xorg includes open source 3D direct rendering drivers for Matrox G200,
G400, G450 and G550, ATI Radeon (up to 9250 aka RV280), SiS 300/305, 540
and 630. And some older cards like the 3dfs Voodoo and Banshee. There is
a binary only driver for NVidia cards, but it's x86 only. I don't like
binary-only drivers very much myself (kernel changes tend to break them,
and only the supplier can fix them, who has other priorities. etc, etc...)

HTH,

Roland
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