List of computing mascots
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This is a list of computing mascots. A mascot is any person, animal, or object thought to bring luck, or anything used to represent a group with a common public identity. In case of computing mascots, they either represent software, hardware, or any project or collective entity behind them.
A
- Adiumy, a cartoon duck, is the mascot of Adium, a free and open-source instant messaging client for macOS.[1]
- Amanda the Panda, a cartoon panda, is the mascot of Window Maker, a free and open-source window manager for the X Window System.[2][3]
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Amanda the Panda, the mascot of Window Maker.
B
- Beanbird, mascot of LG’s webOS operating system.[4]
- Blinky, a cartoon fish, is the mascot of FreeDOS, a free and open-source DOS implementation for IBM PC compatible computers.[5]
- Beastie, the BSD Daemon, a cartoon demon, is the mascot of BSD, a free and open-source Unix operating system derivative that also has many derivations out of itself.[6]
- Bugdroid, mascot of the Android operating system
- Buggie, a cartoon anthropomorphic bug, is the mascot of Bugzilla, a free and open-source web-based general-purpose bugtracker and testing tool.[7]
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A rendition of the BSD Daemon by Poul-Henning Kamp
C
- Camelia, a cartoon bug with butterfly-like wings, is the mascot of Raku.[8]
- CowDuck, a cartoon hybrid with the head of a cow and the body of a duck is the mascot of TerminusDB.[9]
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CowDuck
D
- Dash, a hummingbird, is the mascot for the Dart language and the Flutter framework. The hummingbird represents that Dart is a speedy language.[10]
- DotNet Bot (typically stylized as "dotnet bot" or "dotnet-bot") is the official community mascot of the .NET free and open source software framework.[11]
- Duke, a stylized, unspecified creature, is the mascot of Java, a system for developing application software and deploying it in a cross-platform computing environment.[12]
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The DotNet Bot, mascot of .NET
E
- elePHPant, a cartoon elephant, is the mascot of PHP, a server-side scripting language designed primarily for web development.[13]
- eMule, a free and open-source peer-to-peer file sharing application for Microsoft Windows, is represented by a cartoon mule of the same name.[14]
F
- Freedo, a cartoon anthropomorphic penguin, is the mascot of Linux-libre, a free and open-source operating system kernel derived from Linux kernel, packaged by GNU to have all the proprietary components removed.[15]
- The crab Ferris is the unofficial mascot of the Rust language.[16]
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Freedo, the mascot of Linux-libre.
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Ferris, the mascot of Rust
G
- Gavroche, a cartoon goblin, is the mascot of GNU MediaGoblin, a free and open-source decentralized server software for hosting and sharing digital media.[17]
- Geeko, a stylized chameleon, is the mascot of SUSE Linux, a Linux-based free and open-source computer operating system family.[18]
- Glenda, the Plan 9 Bunny, a cartoon rabbit, is the mascot of Plan 9 from Bell Labs, a free and open-source distributed operating system that manages all computing resources through its file system rather than specialized interfaces.[19]
- GNU – or just the drawing "GNU head", an anthropomorphic wildebeest head—is the mascot—or just the logo—of GNU, a free and open-source operating system and an extensive collection of computer software; it is also the mascot of GNU Project, a free-software, mass-collaboration project.[20]
- Gooey, a cartoon octopus, is the mascot of WebGUI, a free and open-source content management system.[21]
- The free and open-source Go programming language is represented by a gopher.[22]
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Gavroche, the mascot of MediaGoblin
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Glenda, the Plan 9 Bunny, the mascot of Plan 9 from Bell Labs.
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Gopher, the mascot of Go.
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K
- Kandalf, a cartoon wizard, is the former mascot of KDE.[24]
- Kate the Cyber Woodpecker, a cartoon robotic woodpecker, is the mascot of Kate, a free and open-source advanced text editor for software developers.[25]
- Kiki the Cyber Squirrel, a cartoon anthropomorphic robotic squirrel, is the mascot of Krita, a free and open-source raster graphics editor designed for digital painting and animation.[26]
- Kitty, a cartoon anthropomorphic cat, created by Eric W. Schwartz, is the mascot of AROS Research Operating System, a free and open-source multimedia centric implementation of the AmigaOS 3.1 APIs.[27]
- Konqi is the primary mascot of KDE, an international community that develops free and open-source software, and KDE Projects, software they have developed, including KDE Plasma workspace, KDE Frameworks, and the software foundation of other KDE Applications. A number of other dragons also exist, such as Katie, associated with KDE Women's Project.[24]
- Kotlin mascot is the currently unnamed mascot of the Kotlin programming language.
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Katie, the mascot of KDE Women's Project.
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KDE dragons, the mascots of KDE Community.
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Kate the Cyber Woodpecker, the mascot of Kate editor.
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Kiki the Cyber Squirrel, the mascot of Krita.
L
- Lenny, a penguin with blue hair, who is the mascot for Lubuntu.[28]
- Larry, a hand-drawn cow, is one of Gentoo's unofficial mascots.[29]
- The Lisp mascot is an quadruped alien with more than four eyes and a single arm extending from the nose[30]
M
- Moby Dock, a cartoon whale that hauls shipping containers on its back, is the mascot of Docker, a set of platform as a service (PaaS) products.[31]
- Mozilla, a cartoon anthropomorphic lizard and later a stylized tyrannosaurus rex, is the retired mascot of Mozilla Foundation, a non-profit organization that supports and leads Mozilla, a free-software community that developed Firefox, a free and open-source web browser and many related projects.[32]
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Moby Dock, a cartoon whale that hauls shipping containers on its back
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Mozilla, the former mascot of the Mozilla free software community.
O
- Octocat, an anthropomorphized cat with five octopus-like arms is GitHub's mascot.[33][34]
P
- The Apache Pig, an anthropomorphic pig, is the mascot of Apache Pig.[35]
- Preston, a puffin, is the mascot of PrestaShop, a free and open-source e-commerce platform.
- Puffy, a cartoon pufferfish, is the mascot of OpenBSD, a free and open-source Unix-like operating system descended from BSD, dedicated to security and stability features.[36]
- Purple Pidgin, a cartoon pigeon, is the mascot of Pidgin, a free and open-source multi-platform instant messaging client.[37]
- The Powershell Hero, a flat shaded humanoid character, is the mascot of Microsoft Powershell 7, Microsoft's open-source shell.[38]
- Camel, a camel, is the mascot of Perl, a high-level programming language.[39]
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The Purple Pidgin, mascot of Pidgin.
R
- The Raft consensus algorithm mascot is a log raft with a face. Created by Andrea Ruygt, and made a vector by Diego Ongaro[40]
- Rocky Raccoon, a cartoon raccoon, is the mascot of MINIX 3, a free and open-source project to create a small, high availability, high functioning Unix-like operating system.[41]
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The Raft consensus algorithm mascot.
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Rocky Raccoon, the mascot of MINIX 3.
T
- Tux, a cartoon anthropomorphic penguin, is the mascot of Linux kernel, a free and open-source monolithic Unix-like computer operating system kernel that has been included in many OS distributions.[42]
- Tizen Genie, former mascot of the Tizen operating system for phones.[43][44]
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Tux, the mascot of Linux kernel.
W
- Wilber is the mascot of GIMP, a free and open-source raster graphics editor designed for image editing, drawing, image format conversion and others.[45]
- Wombats are associated with DATATRIEVE, being adopted as the mascot of its product group. References were included in the help system for the product, and a graphics demonstration using the "PLOT WOMBAT" command displays the character.[46]
X
- Xue, a stylized mouse, is the mascot of Xfce, a free and open-source desktop environment for Unix-like operating systems that aims to be fast and lightweight, while still being visually appealing and easy to use.[47]
Z
- Zero the Ziguana and Ziggy the Ziguana are the two official mascots of the programming language Zig.[48]
- Znurt the Flying Saucer is one of Gentoo Linux's unofficial mascots.[29]
See also
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