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The '''BSD Daemon''' is the mascot of the original [[Berkeley Software Distribution]] of the [[Unix]] [[operating system]].<ref name="History of the BSD Daemon">{{cite web|url=http://www.mckusick.com/beastie/|title="History of the BSD Daemon"|date=Retrieved 12-April-2007}}</ref><ref name="BSD Daemon History from freebsd.org">{{cite web|url=http://www.freebsd.org/copyright/daemon.html|title="The BSD Daemon"|date=Retrieved 12-April-2007}}</ref> 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 HTTP Server|Apache]] typically run as daemons). The BSD Daemon commonly carries a [[triton]] (also known as a [[pitchfork]]) as a play on the way [[Unix]] [[process|processes]] rely on the [[fork]] function to start other processes. | |||
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| | |caption = The BSD Daemon | ||
| | |licence = C | ||
| | |author = Marshall Kirk McKusick | ||
|Bsd4_3.gif|The BSD Daemon as drawn by John Lasseter | |||
|Beastie foglio.jpg|The original daemon, drawn by [[Phil Foglio]] | |||
|42daemon.gif|[[John Lasseter]]'s original grayscale drawing from 1983 | |||
|Bsd4_3.gif|Famous BSD Daemon drawing by John Lasseter in 1988 | |||
|Beastie_source.jpg|Another rendition by Lasseter in 1994 | |||
|Openbsd.jpg|The OpenBSD 2.3 mascot, as drawn by Erick Green | |||
| | |Lego daemon.jpg|Lego sculpture by Eric Harshbarger | ||
|Lego daemon tux.jpg|Another sculpture by Harshbarger, this time with [[Tux]] | |||
|Netbsdtour.jpg|[[NetBSD]] Daemon, drawn by Theo Deraadt | |||
|Bsd_dos.jpg|The daemon "poking" fun at [[Microsoft]] | |||
|Net2usl0.jpg|Artwork by Carol Peel | |||
|Beastie_bug.gif|Beastie swatting a particular bug flying from a window | |||
|Bsdaemon_medium.png|A high resolution image taken from an [[SVG]] | |||
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The BSD Daemon is the mascot of the original Berkeley Software Distribution of the Unix operating system.[1][2] 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 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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- ↑ "History of the BSD Daemon" (Retrieved 12-April-2007).
- ↑ "The BSD Daemon" (Retrieved 12-April-2007).