BSD Daemon

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Image:Bsd daemon.jpg BSD Daemon is the BSD operating system's mascot, named after a daemon, a type of software program common on Unix-like operating systems. Although a Walnut Creek advertiser wrongly named it "Chuck," perhaps because of its shoes, and some call it "beastie," a phonetic pronunciation of BSD (BeeS Dee), in fact the proper name is just "BSD Daemon". It usually carries a trident to symbolize the daemon's forking of processes.

The copyright of the BSD Daemon is held by Marshall Kirk McKusick who tries to ensure that it is properly used to identify only BSD-based software and services. The current popular version of BSD Daemon was drawn by animation director John Lasseter on March 22, 1988.

1 ASCII image
2 OpenBSD daemon
3 See also
4 External links

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ASCII image

Prior to version 6.0 of FreeBSD this image of the BSD Daemon appeared in the startup menu. It also is seen in the daemon screensaver.

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          `--{__________)

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OpenBSD daemon

Prior to selecting the current mascot, Puffy, OpenBSD used a BSD daemon with a halo. This image was associated with the project during the 2.3 and 2.4 releases

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