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; click here for the full image

Original drawing by John Lasseter in 1988 Another rendition by Lasseter in 1994 The OpenBSD 2.3 mascot, as drawn by Erick Green A high resolution image taken from an SVG NetBSD Daemon, drawn by Theo Deraadt The daemon "poking" fun at Microsoft Artwork by Carol Peel Bsd lego.jpg Daemon by Lego sculptor Eric Harshbarger

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