BSD Daemon/Gallery

The BSD Daemon is the mascot of the original Berkeley Software Distribution of the Unix operating system. The name is derived from a common Unix application called a daemon, which is a program that runs solely in the background, typically with no human intervention (web servers such as Apache typically run as daemons). The BSD Daemon commonly carries a triton (also known as a pitchfork) as a play on the way Unix processes rely on the fork function to start other processes.

The BSD Daemon© Images: Marshall Kirk McKusick

The BSD Daemon as drawn by John Lasseter     The original daemon, drawn by Phil Foglio     John Lasseter's original grayscale drawing from 1983     Famous BSD Daemon drawing by John Lasseter in 1988     Another rendition by Lasseter in 1994     The OpenBSD 2.3 mascot, as drawn by Erick Green     Lego sculpture by Eric Harshbarger     Another sculpture by Harshbarger, this time with Tux     NetBSD Daemon, drawn by Theo Deraadt     The daemon "poking" fun at Microsoft     Artwork by Carol Peel     Beastie swatting a particular bug flying from a window     A high resolution image taken from an SVG