[osol-discuss] Re: [osol-mktg] New Home Page Graphic

[Bill Rushmore]

On Thu, 31 Aug 2006, Tim Foster wrote:

> On Thu, 2006-08-31 at 08:52 -0400, Bill Rushmore wrote:
>> On Thu, 31 Aug 2006, Martin Man wrote:
>>> could be just me being too busy, but was there any open decision making
>>> process that led to this logo being chosen?
>
> No idea (I wasn't involved, in case you were wondering ;-)
>
>> Also, what does it all mean?  Granted, I might be a little thick but what
>> is the significance of (2)?
>
> The (2) is referencing the man page convention of putting the section of
> the man page after the function you're talking about. I figured you guys
> would get it (since the code in the background is some of the
> implementation of the open syscall :
> http://cvs.opensolaris.org/source/xref/on/usr/src/uts/common/syscall/open.c#59 )
>
> I used the "open" syscall since it's part of our name, and a pretty
> important system call in UNIX generally.
>
>
> Maybe it's all a bit geeky, but I liked it. I guess the graphic will
> only be there for a while - so if you feel like putting together a
> better graphic (which admittedly, wouldn't be hard!) I'm sure the
> website-discuss guys are still taking submissions.
>

I like it too!  How "UNIX" can you get, when some one asks about the
graphic and you send them to a man page!  :-)

Bill
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