Re: Change the name "daemon" to something better!



In <1137701941.494470.52520@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, on
01/19/2006
at 12:19 PM, aalbino@xxxxxxxxxxx said:

>Isn't anyone else bothered by the fact that a really good OS such as
>linux has stuff named after some of the evilist and most diabolic
>(yuk! beagh!!!) beings in the universe?!

Only the uneducated. The educated know the etymology and understand
that the nomenclature has nothing to do with Christian mythology.

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