BSD Daemon

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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.

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

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

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External links

[FreeBSD's The BSD Daemon page]
[Marshall Kirk McKusick's BSD Daemon Page]
[beastie.com]
[What's that daemon?] — info on daemon shirts and a funny story

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BSD Daemon

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