On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 10:08 PM, Alec Joseph Rivera <[email protected]>wrote:
> Winelfred G. Pasamba wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 9:38 PM, Alec Joseph Rivera <[email protected] > > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > > > Winelfred G. Pasamba wrote: > > > just wait till he discovers how many daemons there are in his > > system, hehe > > > > > > hope the non-satanic developers start renaming their software from > > > 'daemons' to 'servers' like apache and postgresql > > > > > > > > They have been retained that way lest we forget our roots... :-) > > > > > > anyway what's the background history of naming servers that way? > > > It's funny, I've just blogged about this.. Quoting wikipedia: > > The term was coined by the programmers of MIT's Project MAC > <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_MAC>. They took the name from > Maxwell's demon <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxwell%27s_demon>, an > imaginary being from a famous thought experiment that constantly works > in the background, sorting molecules.^[2] > <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daemon_%28computer_software%29#cite_note-1> > Unix <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix> systems inherited this > terminology. Daemons > <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daemon_%28mythology%29> are also > characters in Greek mythology, some of whom handled tasks that the gods > could not be bothered with. BSD > <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley_Software_Distribution> and some > of its derivatives have adopted a daemon as its mascot > <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BSD_Daemon>, although this mascot is > actually a cute <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cute> variation of the > demons <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demon> which appear in Christian > <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian> artwork. > > Majority of the terms and names of programs and utilities we use > everyday on Linux have their own history and reflects the creativity and > witty playfulness of hackers (or of those who are of the same mindset). > most of these servers are good software with a bad name :) so they are actually sheep in wolves clothing so it's what the software does that's most important but why maintain an evil-associated name for a good software? and why do we have to explain these historical excuses to all our students in operating systems every semester? medyo nakakahiya na tuloy i-promote ang linux sa isang christianong bansa tulad satin. and if you translate daemon/demon into 1000 human languages, how many will not resolve to something evil-associated? most of them will i guess
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