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How is it just today, listening to the FreeBSD episode of FLOSS Weekly, that I learned that *the* John Lasseter of Pixar/Disney fame is the creator of the beloved BSD Daemon mascot drawing used for multiple decades? #Unix #Linux #freebsd twit.tv/shows/floss-we…
in reply to Hank G

I remember the first version by Phil Foglio (“What’s New” in Dragon magazine, “Girl Genius” etc.)
in reply to Hank G

Girl Genius is a great comic. I need to catch up with it.
in reply to Hank G

There's a video game on the way as well now.
in reply to Hank G

Nice, I recently switched to FreeBSD as main OS. 😃
in reply to Daniel

@Daniel With GhostBSD just having their FreeBSD 13 based release I got on a bit of a BSD nostalgia kick yesterday and may throw it in a VM again 😀. FreeBSD was my first home UNIX operating system.

PS this is my new Fediverse account since my old social.isurf.ca host is going away.
in reply to Hank G

The latest release of GhostBSD is much closer to FreeBSD however in the FreeBSD forum they are very picky to clarify that is forbidden or discouraged request assistance for Ghost, Nomad and Mindnight -BSD.

p.s. I see I have to move myself to your Friendica server as well since social.isurf.ca is closing soon...
in reply to Daniel

@Daniel I can understand that. They should treat it like a Mint user asking help in an Ubuntu forum.

Registration is open but requires admin approval. I'm new to self hosting stuff like this though.

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