I am a Windows user looking for a new operating system to learn and FreeBSD looks interesting except the BSD Daemon makes it look really bad, to the point where most men would probably classify it as looking evil, which contrasts with the unofficial mantra of Google "don't be evil".
Initially I presumed this was a reference to the daemons which are equivalent to services which run on Unix variants including Linux, although when I looked up the definition of daemon I was surprised to discover that daemons are actually classified as good spirits:
"Daemons are good or benevolent 'supernatural beings between mortals and gods, such as inferior divinities and ghosts of dead heroes' (see Plato's Symposium), and differ from the Judeo-Christian usage of demon, a malignant spirit that can seduce, afflict, or possess humans."
Source http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daemon_(classical_mythology)
Thus I am somewhat puzzled at use of a demon to represent a system which is founded on daemons - is there a simple explanation?
Initially I presumed this was a reference to the daemons which are equivalent to services which run on Unix variants including Linux, although when I looked up the definition of daemon I was surprised to discover that daemons are actually classified as good spirits:
"Daemons are good or benevolent 'supernatural beings between mortals and gods, such as inferior divinities and ghosts of dead heroes' (see Plato's Symposium), and differ from the Judeo-Christian usage of demon, a malignant spirit that can seduce, afflict, or possess humans."
Source http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daemon_(classical_mythology)
Thus I am somewhat puzzled at use of a demon to represent a system which is founded on daemons - is there a simple explanation?