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BSD Daemon Copyright 1988 by Marshall Kirk McKusick. All Rights Reserved. Used with permission.
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Image:Openbsd.jpg|The OpenBSD 2.3 mascot, as drawn by Erick Green | Image:Openbsd.jpg|The OpenBSD 2.3 mascot, as drawn by Erick Green | ||
Image:Bsdaemon_medium.png|A high resolution image taken from an [[SVG]] | Image:Bsdaemon_medium.png|A high resolution image taken from an [[SVG]] | ||
Image:Netbsdtour.jpg|[[NetBSD]] Daemon, drawn by Theo Deraadt | |||
Image:Bsd_dos.jpg|The daemon "poking" fun at [[Microsoft]] | |||
Image:Net2usl0.jpg|Artwork by Carol Peel | |||
Image:Bsd_lego.jpg|Daemon by Lego sculptor Eric Harshbarger | |||
</gallery> | </gallery> | ||
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Revision as of 15:52, 14 April 2007
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. | |
- ↑ "History of the BSD Daemon" (Retreived 12-April-2007).
- ↑ "The BSD Daemon" (Retreived 12-April-2007).