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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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The BSD Daemon as drawn by John Lasseter
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Famous BSD Daemon drawing by John Lasseter in 1988
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Another rendition by Lasseter in 1994
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The OpenBSD 2.3 mascot, as drawn by Erick Green
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Lego sculpture by Eric Harshbarger
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Another sculpture by Harshbarger, this time with Tux
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NetBSD Daemon, drawn by Theo Deraadt
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Beastie swatting a particular bug flying from a window
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A high resolution image taken from an SVG
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