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 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

BSD Daemon Copyright 1988 by Marshall Kirk McKusick. All Rights Reserved. Used with permission.