Re: Let's take Moskus as the Hurd animal!

[James Morrison]

--- Christian Mertes <c_mertes@t-online.de> wrote:
> James Morrison <rocketmail_com@rocketmail.com> wrote:
> 
> >  Product? Cute?  Who cares about cute, I want something that
> >  stomps on penguins
> > and other things that get in the way.
> 
> Not sure if general public and media share your oppinion.
> 
> Seriously, I oftenly tried to imagine what Linux would be now
> without Tux. 

 Perhaps, it would be where it is today, but with only a red hat.

> I don't think they would be that popular. Perhaps
> Linux wouldn't have been in the media so much, rendering
> GNU/Linux users still a bunch of freaks. What I see now in some
> tv shows and newspaper articles is a much larger bunch of
> political heroes that invented a completely new economical order.
> IMHO caring about that difference is no mistake.
> 
> Furthermore it sounds as if you'd like to make the Hurd an OS
> monster.

 The Hurd is a new breed of monster.

> 
> Ok, doing it the OpenBSD way could be an option. They changed
> their mascot, too, although a lot of people already knew the old
> one. I don't really know why they changed but I think that way
> they reach more non-hackers.
> 

 OpenBSD hasn't reached more non-hackers by using a blowfish.  OpenBSD
reaches people because the developers are anal about some aspects of their
system.

> > I don't think I should
> > go to amazon.com presentations anymore.
> 
> Hm?

 It was free food.

> 
> > The Moskus is cool,
> 
> Sure it is but nothing I could feel related to just as the GNU
> gnu.
> 
> > but the Hurd is an aggregation of things, so I believe a herd
> > of GNUs is a better mascot.
> 
> A herd sounds like a good idea.

 Humm, big surprise.  Most GNU Hurd banners involve a herd of gnus.

> 
> > If you think of a cool free
> > software project Moskus would be a kicking name.
> 
> ACK. But it sounds better for something security related, a
> firewall or something heavy that stands in your way.
> 
>       Christian

 Ok, I'm am going to shut up now.  I really have nothing useful to say, but
thanks to stanv for showing us the Moskus.  The Moskus may be useful in the
future as the Quagga is useful to the fsf now ;)
 http://www.aristotle.net/~swarmack/quagga.html
http://mail.gnu.org/pipermail/savannah-hackers/2002-June/008630.html



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James Morrison
   University of Waterloo
   Computer Science - Digital Hardware
   2A co-op
http://hurd.dyndns.org

Anyone referring to this as 'Open Source' shall be eaten by a GNU

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