NetBSD Chooses New Logo

jschauma writes "Live from EuroBSDCon 2004: The NetBSD Project announces its new logo. The logo was selected out of over 400 submissions in an albeit lengthy process, where the developers considered various important aspects of a new identifying logo. See the official logo contest announcement (to refresh your memory) and the official press release."

Comments

New Logo

[Anonymous Coward]

Maybe a headstone would be a more appropriate logo, no?

Re:New Logo

[Zoko Siman]

Netcraft confirms it, kicking a dead horse is still fun.

Hmmm

[ShatteredDream]

So they dropped the BSD devils? I wonder what happened? Did somebody send a few planes full of Southern Baptists and Jehova's Witnesses over to Europe to have a little chat with the NetBSD team?

Re:Hmmm

[sydb]

I don't know about being Christian but there's no need to have belief in the Bible. It's a fact. It does exist. I've seen it on several occasions (usually in hotels for some reason).

So, it's no longer a matter of faith. The Bible is for real.

Re:Hmmm

[geminidomino]

Daemons, please. Not devils. *BSD takes your sanity, not your soul. ;)

Re:Hmmm

[Tony Hoyle]

Yes this gideon bloke keeps leaving his behind in the hotels I visit.

Damn forgetfull, if you ask me....

Re:Hmmm

[MikeXpop]

Yes. They decided the devil was a little too risque, so they all decided on a more subtle, politically friendlier logo.

Re:Hmmm

[Anonymous Coward]

What the fuck? The Soviet Union collapsed because they didn't believe in god?

What is the signifigance?

[Beautyon]

Of putting a snake's tounge at the end of a pool cue?

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm!

Obligatory Tired Cliché!

[The-Bus]

Netcraft confirms! The old NetBSD logo is dead!

Finally they've raisen the flag.

[Anonymous Coward]

Time for them to recognize the defeat against other OSes.

We accept your surrender.

Re:Finally they've raisen the flag.

[sydb]

I won't celebrate until they've sultana the flag.

NetBSD Devils != WWII Soldiers

[miket]

As a member of the US Air National Guard I don't like the devils raising the NetBSD flag in the likeness of World War II soldiers raising the Unites States flag over Iwo Jima. I hold the sacrifice of my grandfather's generation sacred.

Re:NetBSD Devils != WWII Soldiers

[zentex]

As a member of the US Air National Guard I don't like the devils raising the NetBSD flag in the likeness of World War II soldiers raising the Unites States flag over Iwo Jima.

Some Soldier you are! If you were better educated, you would know those "World War II Soldiers" were infact U.S. Marines.

err...your only a guardsman, sorry to hold you to higher standards ;-)

I was going to moderate you as flambait, but I felt compelled to set you straight; as my Grandfather was *ON* that island.

Anyways, the previous logo was meant to convey the fact that NetBSD has "conquered" almost all hardware; nothing more. Don't be an idiot.

Re:NetBSD Devils != WWII Soldiers

[Brandybuck]

...and realized that he would get a second chance to photograph such a historic event.

A "second chance" at history? While we may quibble over the definition of "staged", that photograph has been erroneous portrayed for the last fifty years as the initial flag raising event.

But be that as it may, I'm still distressed that the Slashdot population would so quickly mod my post down as "troll". Did I offend someone? Since when has Slashdot modded down misinformation? Heck, most of the time it gets modded up!

Re:Albeit?

[Anonymous Coward]

If you don't know how to use big words, please don't bother trying.

Albeit is not that big a word. Medium at most.

Re:More corporate looking

[Anonymous Coward]

The new logo certainly has more corporate appeal, and its simplicity also allows different colors to be used[...]

Yeah, for example white flag.

Re:better logo, yes

[MetalliQaZ]

"He was basically forced out because of the huge egos in the NetBSD core team"

Ridiculous! Who could have a bigger ego than Theo??

Re:I don't like this logo, here is why

[sydb]

The point is, infiltrate and subvert. You can't do that wearing flares and round-rimmed spectacles, you need a sharp suit.

A lot of the hippies from the 60s became the rich bankers, accountants and lawyers of the 80s. Fortunately, the goodness of Free Software is enshrined in the licenses.

I was going to say something rude there about BSD versus GPL but that would have been inflammatory.

Why NetBSD is important

[Anonymous Coward]

NetBSD is always the first OS to be ported to new hardware because it is the most portable code. In a similar fashion, the new NetBSD logo is always the first logo to be designed for new Slashdot articles because it is very easy to draw.

Re:Albeit?

[Paradise Pete]

parent shouldn't be modded flamebait, his comment is obviously correct

A post can be factually correct and still be flamebait.
You fucking moron. (There, see?)

("You fucking moron" is for illustrative purposes. Parent poster may or may not actually be a fucking moron.)

Re:hmm

[nomadic]

So why orange?

To warn people how frustrating installing netbsd will be?

Re:OSS has come of age

[ChairmanMeow]

("embiggens a dynamic paradigm in scalable infotecture")

That's a perfectly cromulent statement...

PHB was watered-down devil also

[billstewart]

Gak. Don't you k1dd13z remember your Dilbert history? The Pointy-Haired Boss was originally a devil also, but got watered down. (And that's not even counting his cousin Phil from Heck, the Prince of Inadequate Light, carrier of a big pitch-spoon...) In the PHB's case, that was probably a distinct improvement, but here it's just lame corporate blandness.

Disclaimer: I work for a different Phone Company than the one Scott Adams worked for back when Dilbert was mostly a Phone Company thing.

Re:More corporate looking

[eyeye]

But while we are on the subject a funny story about it :-)

Re:The whole "cute animal" thing has got to go

[fracex]

Because Windows XP is SO professional with its Luna interface.