BSD Daemon

From Citizendium
Revision as of 09:18, 12 April 2007 by imported>Joshua David Williams (added more information)
Jump to navigation Jump to search

The BSD Daemon is the mascot of the original Berkeley Software Distribution of Unix.[1][2] The name is derived from a common type of Unix application called a daemon, which is a program that runs in the background with typically no human intervention. The inspiration for the mascot comes from that the word daemon is also a former spelling of the word demon. The BSD Daemon is a red devil, and commonly carries a triton (also known as a pitchfork) to denote a daemon's forking of processes.

Related Topics

  • Hexley, the mascot of the open source Darwin operating system
  • Tux, the Linux mascot
  • Unix

References

  1. "History of the BSD Daemon" (Retreived 12-April-2007).
  2. "The BSD Daemon" (Retreived 12-April-2007).