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Comments · 15

  1. Re:Really? Pangolin? by jdgeorge · · Score: 5, Informative · on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Out; Unity Gets a Second Chance

    What??? No! (Oh, wait; yes.)

  2. Re:Idle Connections are the devil's playthings by raddan · · Score: 1 · on USB Is the Devil's Connection

    Especially if you're running the Mac OS. Or any software written in Berkeley for that matter.

  3. Re:Pundits Hate Tux the Linux Penguin, Too by agnosticnixie · · Score: 1 · on Mainstream Press "Cringes" At Win7 Launch Parties

    To be very honest, the unnoficial DarwinOS logo is not much more awesome to people who'd think Tux and Beastie are too cutesy.

  4. Re:sins, eh? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on FSF Attacks Windows 7's "Sins" In New Campaign

    The situation has been partly remedied by the introduction of the cute and cuddly platypus mascot.

  5. Re:Woefully incomplete by bbtom · · Score: 2, Interesting · on How Famous OS Logos Got Started

    Yep, and they also miss out the BSD Daemon, and Hexley the Platypus - which beat the corporate Windows and OS X logos any day. And lacking BSD, they miss the story of the two Texans reacting to the BSD daemon T-shirt, one of the best stories in BSD history.

  6. Re:In other news... by michaeldot · · Score: 1 · on MS-DOS Paternity Dispute Goes to Court
    An earlier mascot for Linux was the platypus. It made for a cooler logo, IMHO.

    But then what would Hexley be?

  7. Re:Huh. by maja33 · · Score: 1 · on SCO Granted Hearing on Potential Delisting

    No, no, the lovable Hexley is a platypus,not a daemon.

  8. Re:Succubus with Big Ones by caveat · · Score: 1 · on FreeBSD Announces Contest To Replace Daemon Logo

    Huh-huh, she's hot. Gets my vote.

    Is OS X BSD enough so I can use her? Beats Hexley.

  9. Re:be careful by javaxman · · Score: 1 · on Microsoft's Midlife Crisis
    That's a cute platypus devil named Hexley, actually.

    And he is a damn cute little bugger, too, ain't he?

  10. negative religious ramifications? Then why darwin? by compactable · · Score: 1 · on NetBSD Announces Logo Design Competition

    Here's what I don't get: their motive for changing the logo is (among other things) "negative cultural, and religious ramifications". They then suggest Darwin's mascot hexley as a refence logo / mascot. The thing is holding a pitchfork. Is this not a negative religious ramification? Where is the line drawn. I am confsed...

  11. WTF by lvdrproject · · Score: 2, Interesting · on Hard Drives Preloaded With GNU-Darwin
    . . .

    Nobody is forcing anything on you, jackass. It's not like they're saying "Hey, you can't buy a hard drive without Darwin". Rather, they're saying "Hey, if you're interested in using Darwin as your operating system, here's a hard drive pre-loaded with the system; you don't have to download any CDs or mess with the installation, it's all right there for you".

    I don't know what the Hell your deal is with "that Devil mascot". It's a cartoon devil. If you're implying some sort of Christian, anti-Satan, whatever... that's pretty retarded. It's a CARTOON.

    There is no "bad marketing". This stems from your incorrect belief that they are forcing you to use Darwin. This is merely an attempt at getting people to try Darwin in the easiest possible way. Darwin is FREE; if you did purchase one of these hard drives and decided that you did not like Darwin, you would be more than able to format the Hell out of it. You would not lose a single penny; you would simply have yourself a new hard drive.

    :Lav

    PS: The mascot for Darwin isn't actually a devil (or daemon, as BSD people seem to prefer). The devil is the mascot of BSD. Darwin, while built on BSD, is not exactly BSD. Rather, Darwin's mascot is Hexley the platypus (though he does where a devil costume).

  12. Chimera by kriegsman · · Score: 5, Funny · on Phoenix 0.2 Web Browser: Lean, Mean Mozilla
    The Phoenix README says:
    Q8: What about OS X?
    Chimera is the top gecko-based browser for OS X.
    We do not intend to compete on that platform.
    Chimera is here. It might be nice to see Chimera and Phoenix share ideas, programmers, resources, and code, but both projects seem to be doing OK so far as separate entities.

    Besides, if they merged the projects, they'd have a very confusing animal for a logo: flaming bird with the head of a male lion, the body of a goat, and the tail of a snake: a 'phimera'.

    Since the new project would also be Mac OS X -native, they really should also crossbreed this new 'phimera' with Hexley (the Darwin mascot), a duck-billed platypus with horns. The result would be a horny duck-faced lion with a goatee that lays flaming serpent eggs midair.

    I think you can see now the grave importance of keeping these two projects separate.

    -Mark
  13. Re:OT: Story icon by piecewise · · Score: 3, Interesting · on Jordan Hubbard moves to new OpenDarwin.org

    I just think it's amazing that there's a hexley.com!

  14. Darwin Mascot by mirko · · Score: 2, Funny · on A Linux User At MacWorld

    I didn't know about Hexley, the Darwin mascot, but what the Hell is this grey picture in the article?

  15. Hexley by fm6 · · Score: 2 · on Slashback: Safety, Transmissions, Breakage

    The Darwin mascot is a platypus named Hexley. Who I find disturbing. Where are his poisonous spurs? Why does he look so much like Donald Duck?