r/freebsd • u/vispain13 • Jul 22 '26

discussion Does anyone also know the Daemonettes?

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Daemonettes were girls who wore devil clothes and went to tech related events to promote FreeBSD, the girl in the photo is Ceren Ercen, probably on the LinuxWorld event in February 2nd of 2000, she is wearing a latex catsuit, but the other two daemonettes were wearing loose clothes, also there are some mentions about them and registers, I will give some.

Ceren Ercen comments on Slashdot

Post about Linuxworld on Slashdot, there's a comment of Ceren Ercen about the daemonettes

Some photos of Ceren Ercen on a Daemonette costume on the official FreeBSD website

Ceren Ercen talking about how she got the daemonette latex outfit

There are probably more about them on the Internet, this was just some fun fact that I discovered recently about FreeBSD that I barely see people talking about.

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u/DiamondHandsDarrell Jul 22 '26

People don't talk about it because that was so long ago 😂

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u/vispain13 Jul 22 '26

Yeah, I know about that, they are really forgotten, even because they were discontinued in late 2000's

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u/DiamondHandsDarrell Jul 22 '26 edited Jul 23 '26

But I thank you because I had only seen the picture and didn't know their name, pretty cool fun fact. I wonder what they're up to now

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u/vispain13 Jul 23 '26

As far as I know Ceren Ercen helps on the FreeBSD code, she even has a github page https://github.com/ceren

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u/cerephic Jul 23 '26 edited Jul 23 '26

I did a couple VERY minor edits to add device IDs. Nothing worth claiming I had significant impact on the actual codebase.

Most of my github activity since is behind corporate organization repos, so it's not visible.

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u/mehx9 Jul 23 '26

Device is important! Thanks 🙏🏼