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Software Mascots
| name | species | project | notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Andy | some sort of firey man? | C# | Retired |
| dotnet bot | robot | .NET1)2) | rotund |
| honey badger | Cosmopolitan3)4) Libc5)6) | ||
| snake | Ninja Python Distributions7) | wearing a ninja mask | |
| mouse | EditorConfig8)9) | White, wears glasses. | |
| whale | LÖVE 10)11) | ||
| fish | The Barrelfish Operating System12)13) | ||
| cat | Kitten Lightweight Kernel14)15)16) | a black kitten | |
| axolotl | Axolotl (Signal client)17)18) | blue | |
| axolotl | Axolotl (machine learning fine-tuning tool)19)20) | “ Go ahead and axolotl questions ” | |
| bird | Roc (programming language) 21) | possibly it is this large bird: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roc_(mythology) | |
| Koala | SmokeAPI 22) | ||
| Alpaca | Stanford Alpaca 23) | ||
| Basilisk web browser 24) | |||
| Hedgehog | Futhark (programming language))25)26)27) | I imagine this is some kind of nod to Sonic the Hedgehog, because of https://futhark-lang.org/performance.html being titled “Gotta Go Fast!” | |
| D-Man | D | D (programming language)28)29) | There are many appearances of the D-Man, official and unofficial, but no centralized listing of these. This forum thread collects most of them https://forum.dlang.org/thread/vccecaeunthhfgvkoija@forum.dlang.org , and here are a few others: https://dlang.org/images/dman-scared.jpg https://dlang.org/images/style3.gif https://dlang.org/images/dman-rain.jpg https://dlang.org/images/dman-error.jpg https://dlang.org/images/dman-time.jpg |
| Chicken | Chicken (programming language by Farhan Sadaf)30)31) | Not to be confused with Chicken Scheme. Based on a quick google, I think the logo is from https://www.flaticon.com/free-icon/hen_2219722 . The link on that page to the page listing the full license for the image is broken, but on this page is written “Flaticon license Free for personal and commercial use with attribution. More info” and other text which implies the site is either using CC-BY or a very similar license, which is Free Culture so that's nice. |
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| Bird | Gren (programming language)32)33) | Possibly a wren? | |
| Wren | Wren (programming language)34)35) | ||
| Dagster? | octopus | Dagster36)37)38)39) | |
| Lemmy? | mouse | Lemmy40)41)42)43) | |
| wolf | LibreWolf44)45)46) | a browser based on firefox | |
| Bun? | Chinese steamed bun (Xiaolongbao/bao/baozi) | Bun47)48) | has face, is smiling |
| Deno? | Sauropod? | Deno49)50)51)52) | Species of Sauropod cannot be determined from the cartoonish drawings. The deno(s? for there seem to be several, of different colors53) are consistently drawn without a mouth |
| hare | The Hare programming language54)55) | ||
| rabbit | Nift56)57)58) (aka nsm / Nifty Site Manager) | Holding two bent rectangles that appear to be html angle brackets. Also, may be associated with a badger, according to the github readme? | |
| dove | Bevy (game engine built in Rust) 59)60) | ||
| Dash | hummingbird | Dart, and Flutter61) | rotund and blue |
| bee62) | BeeCount63) | resembles the Android mascot | |
| cat wallet | catima64) | red | |
| lemur | lemmur 65) | ||
| (Presumably, “lobster”, judging by the file name) | lobster | lobster programming language66)67)68) | |
| wizard:?69) | Wizard70)71) | ImageMagick72)73) | |
| Otter | Lutris74)75) | appears to be specifically the Eurasian otter, Lutra lutra, hence the name of the project. Seems to be curled around a yellow ball, possibly an egg yolk as postulated by https://github.com/lutris/lutris/issues/2550. | |
| veasel | weasel | The V Programming Language76)77) | blue and white |
| Possum | Eleventy78)79) | “animal suspended from the floating red balloon” | |
| Lion | Roaring Bitmaps80)81) | ||
| Sandwich | sudo82)83)84) | Has a face, located on at least one slice of bread. Appears to be a BLT. | |
| Frog | Coqui85)86)87) | Coquí is a type of frog,88) but oddly the frog on the project's webpage89) is a treefrog. | |
| Hummingbird | Snap90)91) | in some images, oragami | |
| Hummingbird | FluentBit92)93) | ||
| The DTrace pony(corn) | ponycorn | DTrace94) | “(both pony and unicorn!)”. Possibly “a magician”. X-ray laser eyes. “There is no official DTrace mascot. You can use this instead”. Several other tracing tool pony mascots are proposed or referenced in https://www.slideshare.net/brendangregg/from-dtrace-to-linux |
| Straus | ostrich | Strace95)96)97) | Straus (also Strauß, etc) is a German name and the German word for ostrich. |
| bird | dCache98)99)100) | ||
| giraffe | Jraph101) | graph giraffe | |
| ghost | Spektral 102)103)104)105) | Pac-man style ghost | |
| Onion | the Fennel programming language106)107) | has eyes | |
| Motovun Jack | Cat (kitten) | TiddlyWiki108)109) | |
| polar bear | GNU Smalltalk110) | ||
| Kate | woodpecker | Kate111)112) | designed by Tyson Tan in 2014 |
| Rat | Linux Ratfor113)114) | wears a t-shirt with a 4 on it | |
| Squirrel | Sodipodi | “Sodipodi is an open-source vector graphics editor, discontinued in 2004, and is the predecessor to Inkscape.” –Wikipedia115) | |
| Dolphin | NEdit | ||
| Emu | QEMU | ||
| Fish | Concurrent Versions System (CVS) | may be a goldfish? | |
| Yastie116) | Aardvark117) | YaST118)119) | |
| Coot | Coot120) | It's biting off the gamma phosphate of an ATP. | |
| hummingbird | Cilk121) (only the libre releases) | ||
| hummingbird | LXQt122)123) | ||
| unicorn | gunicorn124) | green | |
| Edward E Drop?125) | eggman?126) | Eggdrop127)128) | egg with legs, blue sneakers, glasses, eyebrows |
| turtle | LOCKSS129)130) | ||
| Augie | bird | Upspin131)132) | male. copyrighted |
| parrot | Parrot (virtual machine)133) | ||
| bear | BearSSL134) | low-poly, poking at lock. Project is in beta. | |
| Dashie | Cyber Bunny | DashGL135) | “Dashie the Cyber Bunny is a playful little bunny girl, young and eager to learn. Being a bunny reflects the library's small and nimble nature. Her low-polygon costume reflects the library's purpose of managing matrices and vectors.” |
| Pig | Apache Pig136) | ||
| Xenixlet | xenixlet | XKit137) (defunct), New XKit138) | some sort of yellow worm with arms? Introduces itself as to user as “Xenixlet #[number] Your Personal Xenixlet, XKit Assistant”. Has a (probably unofficial) blog here: http://xenixlet.tumblr.com/ |
| eye | The Newspeak Programming Language139) | ||
| Barron(?)140) | rooster | Coq141) | strangely, the rooster is drawn entirely in fleshy tones, as if to evoke the obvious double entendre. |
| octopus | GNU arch142) | octopus is salmon colored and squirting ink. project is deprecated. | |
| rat? | monotone143)144) | grey | |
| cat | whitecat145) | cats ears in logo in ascii | |
| Zero | Ziguana (iguana) | Zig programming language146) | |
| Ziggy | Ziguana (iguana) | Zig programming language147) | |
| Buggie? | ladybug | SerenityOS148)149)150)151) | |
| horse | Stampede Linux152) | discontinued | |
| rhinoceros | Rhino153) | ||
| rhinoceros | Nashorn | ||
| human | Thunar (file manager)154) | viking | |
| orange | orange155) | wears glasses, has a face and limbs, there's also an anthropomorphic page and some anthropomorphic nodes/balloons? | |
| human | Fiat156)157) | stick figure wearing a crown with three jewels | |
| Tortoise | TortoiseGit, TortoiseSVN, TortoiseCVS, TortoiseHg, TortoiseBzr | Blue (in some instances), Cartoon | |
| mastodon? | Mastodon158) | fondness for tooting. “The Mastodon mascot is a sitting Proboscidean using a tablet or smartphone; however, the distribution of fur is more suggestive of a woolly mammoth than the mastodon.”159) | |
| human? | Intern160) | very stylized human, if human. Presumably intern. Has glasses. | |
| Demon? | ClamAV | A clam shell is pictured in some older logos | |
| Xen Fu Panda | Panda | Xen Project161) | Dressed like a Chinese peasant, sometimes has wings to fly in the clouds162) |
| seal | mariaDB163) | white or brown | |
| monkey | mono | ||
| Gmicky | tiger | G'MIC164) | cub, magician |
| Cheetah | Cheetah, the Python-Powered Template Engine165) | ||
| Genetically Engineered Goat, Large | GEGL166) | ||
| Shark | SickRage167) | Very muscular arm. | |
| Jenkins | human | Jenkins168) | Butler |
| human | Apache ZooKeeper169) | Is a zookeeper, presumably | |
| rabbit | RabbitMQ170) | orange and made of pixels | |
| monkey | jMonkeyEngine171) | ||
| monkey | Monkey X172) | ||
| monkey | Monkey 2173) | ||
| Cerberus | Cerberus X174) | ||
| ant | apache ant175) | ||
| dog | Impro-Visor176) | light brown fur, blue eyes, red sweater, playing trumpet and keyboard with humanesque fingers | |
| bird | MEISE177) | yellow chest | |
| raptor | RAPTOR178)179) | ||
| badger | Privacy Badger180) | ||
| Chloë | clownfish181) | SharpDevelop182) | |
| Bird of prey of some sort | Tokumei183)184)185) | ||
| firebug | firebug186) | red version for FlashFirebug187), blue & fireless version for firePHP188) | |
| sea urchin | fireSSH189) | ||
| seahorse | fireFTP190) | ||
| tomster | hamster | ember.js191) | has glasses |
| unicorn | Org mode192)(also MobileOrg193)) | Teal with reddish hair | |
| octopus | octochess | purple, holding chess pieces | |
| robot | certbot | resembles a lock, holds a key | |
| elephant | gradle | ||
| spider | NotABug.org | eyes on its rear? “NotABug.org is a free-software code collaboration platform for freely licensed projects… NotABug.org is based on the Gogs MIT licensed code collaboration platform. The version we run is always available” | |
| Belenos | Sun 194) | BeleniX | |
| Schilli | knight in shining armor | Schillix | |
| giraffe | Nexenta OS | ||
| Pochoclín | bucket of popcorn with eyes | popcorntime | smiling with toothless mouth open (name is “derived from 'pochoclo', which means 'popcorn' in Buenos Aires parlance” according to wikipedia) |
| bee | bitlbee | ||
| rabbit | varnish cache | superhero with turbin? | |
| human | blackbelt (related to TOR) | what looks like a samurai, featured in the installer | |
| rabbit | freenet | ||
| kiwi | quivi (image viewer) | ||
| smiley face | Comix | has horns, fangs, and black eyes | |
| monkey smiley face | MComix195) (fork of Comix) | ||
| camel | gmusicbrowser | a cool guy | |
| whale | docker | often swarms for some reason | |
| rabbit things | Memcached | ||
| human | hijackthis | wears red, holds magnifying glass | |
| Urho | fish | Urho3D (game engine) | based on a real dead fish. See http://urho3d.github.io/#origin-of-the-name |
| catfish | catfish file search | wears a white hat and monocle | |
| Slonik | elephant | PostgreSQL196) (also probably the elephant featured in pgAdmin and slony) | Slonik (“слоник”) is Russian for “little elephant” |
| turtle | PostgreSQL | “In Japan, a turtle logo is used in place of the elephant due to domestic terrorist symbolism.”197) | |
| eye (human?) | decentraleyes | ||
| human | browserify | wizard | |
| bear? | npm | ||
| human | yeoman | he's a yeoman | |
| flame bowerbird | bower (“The browser package manager”) | ||
| warthog | grunt (“The JavaScript Task Runner”) | ||
| Kitty | humaniod cat | AROS Research operating system | |
| mouse | squeak programing language | ||
| spider | Slitaz | ||
| fish | stockfish (chess engine)198)199) | ||
| bird | illumos | ||
| Spot | a spot of white ink | CinePaint | has eyes http://www.cinepaint.org/more/docs/spot.html |
| toucan | Tukaani | “The Tukaani project began as a Slackware based distribution. Nowadays the Tukaani distribution no longer exists, but the distro work gave birth to a few subprojects. The most important of these is XZ Utils data compression software, whose earlier versions carried the name LZMA Utils.” | |
| T-rex with a unicorn horn | libuv | green | |
| Plover | Plover | Plover (pronounced PLUH-VER, not PLOE-VER) is the world's first free, open source stenography engine. | |
| dog | mongrel2 | web server | |
| human | cherokee web server | blue hair, literally white skin, feather headband, cartoon girl | |
| bird | Swift (Programming language) | white | |
| hadoop? | elephant | hadoop | yellow |
| bluebird | bluebird200) | ||
| Presumably a lynx | LynxChan | an imageboard engine | |
| blue fish | bluefish (text editor) | ||
| lion (humanoid) | TeX | ||
| lioness (humanoid) | metafont | ||
| hummingbird | LaTeX | ||
| Shark | FreeNAS | ||
| Rat | ratposion | may be dead | |
| Cat | CatWM | cute and made of ASCII art | |
| Horse | FreeBASIC (and compiler) | ||
| Human | Hugin | Abstract looking, only in logo | |
| pug | pug 201) | ||
| Pac-Man Looking thing | game editor | ||
| Thunderbird | Thunder Bird | Mozilla Thunderbird | |
| Ice Dove | Icedove | ||
| Tux | Penguin | Linux | A beloved and notable mascot, Tux has been the subject of much art, merchandise, and media. Here is an incomplete list of relevant info: In the platformer SuperTux202) Tux's girlfriend Penny (a purple penguin) is captured by Nolok, a large, villainous creature who appears to be some sort of green dinosaur or dragon with orange horns and yellow claws wearing a green superhero's cowl and a black vest. Nolok returns as the villain in the karting game SuperTuxKart,203) when he kidnaps and threatens to eat Gnu. SuperTuxKart is based on TuxKart,204) which also features Gown, another girlfriend of Tux's, who was first introduced in Tux the Penguin: A Quest for Herring205)—Gown is a regularly-colored black penguin but wears a red white-dotted bow and skirt. More information about the history of tux can be found at https://www.sjbaker.org/wiki/index.php?title=The_History_of_Tux_the_Linux_Penguin. http://tuxkart.sourceforge.net/links.html also bears some investigation. |
| Adiumy | Adium | ||
| Beastie | Daemon | BSD in general (Also, more specifically, FreeBSD) | |
| Emule | Mule | eMule | |
| Hexley | Platipus | Darwin | |
| Pidgin | Pigeon | Pidgin | |
| Geeko | Chameleon | OpenSUSE | |
| Wilber | GIMP | GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP) | |
| Beagle | Beagle | Beagle Desktop Search | |
| ElePHPant | Elephant | PHP | |
| Gnu | Gnu | GNU | |
| Konqi | Dragon | KDE K Desktop Environment | Note the pre and post Tyson Tan redesign.206) Also has unnamed(?) colorful friends in a couple dragon pictures. |
| Katie | Dragon | KDE | Female counterpart to Konqi. Note the pre and post Tyson Tan redesign |
| Kandalf | Human (Wizard) | KDE | Old mascot |
| Puffy | Pufferfish/porcupinefish/blowfish | OpenBSD | |
| Pufferfish/porcupinefish/blowfish | OpenSSH | probably just the same guy as from OpenBSD? But he is wearing some spy gear now | |
| Xue | Mouse | Xfce | |
| Sara | Human | OpenGameArt.org | |
| Mozilla | T. Rex / Lizard | Mozilla | |
| Buggie | Bug | BugZilla | |
| Seamonkey | SeaMonkey | ||
| Ice Ape | Iceape | ||
| Firefox | Firefox | firefox should have the private browsing mask on its person. Perhaps as a special move? | |
| Ice Weasel | IceWeasel | ||
| Ice Cat | GNU IceCat | ||
| Cat | Uzbl | ||
| Sun Bird | Sunbird | ||
| Ice Owl | Iceowl | ||
| Bugdroid (Team Nickname) | Robot | Android | |
| Robot | Replicant | ||
| Robot | Cyanogenmod | ||
| Unicorn | AOKP | ||
| Robot? | Paranoid Android | ||
| 207) | Racoon | Minix | |
| Gopher | Go Programming Language | ||
| 208)209)210) | Alien | Lisp211) | |
| Duke | Java | ||
| Hiawatha (presumably) | Human | Hiawatha web server | |
| Shadowman | Human | Red Hat Linux | |
| Gulls | OpenOffice | ||
| S | NoScript | ||
| Sawfish | Sawfish window manager | ||
| Miss Workrave | Sheep | workrave | |
| Pig | Snort | ||
| Flying Squirel | Système de Publication pour l'Internet | ||
| Mouse | Postfix (Mail Program) | ||
| Hedgehog(?) | NuFW | ||
| Dragon | Clang/LLVM | Silver, like a robot | |
| Orca | Orca Screen Reader | Probably blind. Carries a blind cane. Speaks in screenreader voice? | |
| Fred | Dragonfly | DragonflyBSD | |
| Firefly | FireflyBSD | Can't find logo, but wikipedia told me it existed. project may be lost to time | |
| Blinky | Fish | FreeDOS | Looks like he is a whale, I'm assured he isn't |
| Dolphin | Dolphin Browser | ||
| Dolphin | Dolphin Emulator | ||
| Sakila | Dolphin | MySQL | “Sakila” is also the name of the MySQL sample database, designed to represent a DVD rental store. Hey look a plush: http://www.ospn.jp/press/20101222oss_mascot.html/img_0248 |
| Rabbit(?) | Coreboot | ||
| Elk(?) | Libreboot | ||
| Ghost | GhostScript | ||
| Human | SHEF | Chef | |
| Ice Dragon | Comodo IceDragon | ||
| Lynx | Lynx browser | ||
| Elephant | Apache Hadoop | ||
| Gecko | Ututo XS | ||
| Dragon | Dragora | ||
| Stux | Penguin | Linux-libre | Light blue stuffed penguin. Hanging up to dry on clothesline. …just a photo of a stuffed animal, really (thus, its mascot cred is questionable)212) |
| Freetz | Penguin | Linux-libre | Dark blue penguin. Getting out of shower. Older Brother of Freedo.213) |
| Freedo | Penguin | Linux-libre | Light blue penguin. Getting out of shower. Younger Brother of Freetz.214) |
| Lux | Angel Penguin | Linux-libre | Light blue penguin with halo and wings. Modification of Tux. By Guillaume Pasquet. 215)216) |
| (probably “cryptocat”) | Cat | Cryptocat | Red. Pixelated. |
| Nightingale | Nightingale | ||
| Chameleon | Notepad++ | ||
| Kiki | Cyber Squirrel | Krita217) | “A cute, left-handed cyber-squirrel. (A squirrel, because Krita means “squirrel” in Albanian.)” |
| Tango | Tree Frog | FreePBX | Full name maybe be 'Tango D. Frog' |
| Lizard | GNS3 | ||
| Ladybug | Ladybug | ||
| Butterfly | FreeMind | ||
| Weka | Weka | ||
| Duck | Duck Duck Go | DDG has many open source projects, but their main search engine isn't. Then again, the users (the DDG team) have the power. Stallman seems to think this is okay, and he is perhaps the highest standard possible on this issue, so I guess DuckDuckGo is libre | |
| Squid | Squid (caching and forwarding web proxy) | squid-cache.org | |
| Squid | SquidGuard | ||
| Ki-si | Pig | KAGE | A ninja |
| RethinkDB | Humanoid. white. | ||
| Angler Fish | GDB, the GNU debugger | ||
| Zebra | Exherbo | ||
| Human | GNU GRUB | ||
| Turle | Requests | ||
| Larry | Cow | Gentoo | Unofficial |
| Znurt | Flying Saucer | Gentoo | Unofficial |
| Penguin (Gentoo) | Gentoo | A gentoo penguin with real bird wings? | |
| Eye | nmap | ||
| Eye | gNewSense | Minimalistic. Probably a large disembodied sky-dweller | |
| Eye | Eye of GNOME | ||
| Eye (or maybe a guy wearing rainbow goggles?) | Gwenview | ||
| Sphere | Blu Hell | ||
| Dog | Yellow Dog Linux | ||
| Squirrel | SquirrelMail | ||
| Magnifying-glass eye with horns | Searx | ||
| Dragonfly | newLISP | ||
| face | AMPlayer | ||
| Human | Ren'Py | Pink hair, carries yellow snake. | |
| Dog | PuppyLinux | ||
| Glassfish | GlassFish | ||
| Abe (presumably) | Globe | Abe | Beard & Hat based on Abraham Lincoln |
| Horse? | Anjuta | Purple | |
| Spider | Arachnophilia | ||
| Lizard (Gecko?) | Minimo | Defunct | |
| itoopie | A man wearing a mask | I2P | |
| Amanda | panda | Window Maker | |
| Gavoroche | goblin | MediaGoblin | |
| Camelia | butterfly | Perl 6 | “spokesbug for Perl 6” |
| human | Composer, a PHP dependency manager | ||
| mammoth | Mammouth, a small language that compiles to PHP | ||
| cat | Neko programming language/NekoVM | ||
| Scratch Cat | cat | Scratch Programming Language218) | Has a son(?), Scratch Jr,219) and many associated characters |
| brain | MusicBrainz | ||
| ram, lambda | rambda220) | ||
| frog | Vuse | ||
| Baby Q (?) | dragon | qBittorrent | green baby, possibly descended from the KDE dragons |
| some sort of cute personified orange? | Cadencii (a VSQ file viewer from Japan) | (GNU General Public License version 2.0.) | |
| The mahimahi or “common dolphinfish” | Shiira | “Shiira (シイラ, Japanese for the common dolphin-fish) is a discontinued open source web browser for the Mac OS X operating system.” (BSD license) | |
| otter | Otter Browser | ||
| Owl | Eigen (C++ linear algebra library) | There are various un-named owls | |
| flaming ghost head? | Jahshaka | listening to headphones. | |
| mantis | MantisBT (Bug Tracker) | ||
| cheetah | free Pascal | ||
| Aladdin(?) | genie | jitsi | |
| Fire Bird | Firebird (SQL database server) | ||
| Flame Robin | FlameRobin (management GUI for Firebird ) | ||
| Chicken | Chicken Scheme | only in logo | |
| wallaby | wallabag (self hostable application for saving web pages) | ||
| lion | Brave (browser) | ||
| budgie | Budgie (Desktop Environment) | ||
| dinosaur | COBOL on Wheelchair | ||
| Dux (DRBL tux) | The weirdest penguin you've ever seen | Diskless Remote Boot in Linux | maybe it's just another interpretation of Tux. Hmm… https://en.osdn.jp/projects/drbl/images/ available as a toy of some sort |
| orange humanoid | NimbleX | seen in the favicon of http://nimblex.net/ | |
| dragon | dragonbones (2D skeleton animation solution) | ||
| Jurgen | Human Silhouette | Frets on Fire221) | |
Mascots That Might Not Count
| filament | PrusaSlicer | orange filament styled both like Clippy and Joseph Prusa in tip popups 222) has eyes, eyebrows, glasses, and a hat. However, it's unclear if this is the mascot of the project, or just an icon. | |
| pony | django | has wings, unicorn horn, and magic powers. Unofficial.223) | |
| powernext | https://github.com/Vild/PowerNex/issues/30 | ||
| cockroach | CockroachDB224)225) | It's unclear if this is the logo of the project or the company. | |
| Boris Houndleroy | beagle | BeagleBoard (libre hardware) | 3d model here: http://beagleboard.org/project/boris/ |
| human | Gramps226)227) | He's the old guy in the picture Gramps uses all the time. | |
| gargoyle | Gargoyle (interactive fiction player) | Might just be inanimate stone, like a real gargoyle) | |
| Genie (implied by the genie's lamp in the logo) | Geany | ||
| Suzanne | Chimpanzee | Blender | May not qualify as a Mascot |
| robot (?) | apache cordova | looks like an ethernet cord with a face? | |
| Fire Bird | Mozilla Firebird, what Firefox used to be called | did this even have a mascot in the brief period before it was renamed again? | |
| Firebird | Firebird chess engine | ||
| Camel | Perl | O'reilly trademark? | |
| Camel | CAML and derivatives (OCAML, etc) | ||
| Rabbit | Wabbitemu | might just be the mascot of the organization that makes it | |
| Red Gnu/Lizard | GNUzilla | Actually this might just be the same Gnu, just like, painted red for the moment. | |
| Gecko | Gecko Layout Engine | Might not even have a logo with a gecko in | |
| Bill | Cat | tiny/turbo/throttling HTTP server daemon | this is a character from a nonfree comic, merely coopted to be an unofficial mascot |
| Maemo | Many ideas were bandied about. Perhaps no official mascot. | ||
| foxkeh | Firefox | Japanese Firefox or somesuch | https://foxkeh.com/faq/ |
| foxmosa | firefox | Taiwanese Firefox or something | |
| Meego | Don't know. research more. | ||
| waterfox fox | just a blue firefox? probably a “water fox” | ||
| Wombat | DATATRIEVE | DATATRIEVE is in the wikipedia category for “Proprietary database management systems”, so I guess it isn't free. | |
| Moblin | |||
| dragon | comoco dragon | freeware | |
| OP Shark | shark | OSH Park | a company? |
| cat alien | foobar2000 | freeware | |
| octocat | github | github itself seems to be closed source but publishes certain software like Github Desktop that is open source, for which the octocat might also serve as mascot? | |
| Jasper | Jasper (voice-based personal assistant for the raspberry pi) | ||
| Songbird | “GNU GPLv2 with exceptions; Android client closed source” Can't find a mascot, but suspect it is a black bird. Project discontinued anyway. | ||
| Chameleon | Chameleon boot loader | open source, but what license? | |
| Digit | Robot | Schmooze | Schmooze was a company involved in VOIP, not a piece of software |
| Ladybug | Ladybug Logo (Programming Language) | maybe this is true, I don't know | |
| GNU/dragon | gforth | ||
| Dragon | smaug | Smaug is an extremely obscure parsing program written in php. It may not be eligible because Smaug is already a famous dragon. | |
| Sea Turtle | Trita | The only evidence I had that this ever existed as a software project is a number of search engine results for download sites. Probably proprietary anyway. | |
| Turtle | Turtl | ||
| Neon Dinosaur Fossil | Classilla | Probably just a bone from Mozilla | |
| Blackbird | Blackbird, a version of Firefox customized for black people. No, really, I'm serious. It streamed the news for headlines which might interest black people and put them in a little ticker, etc. | Only the wing is in the logo | |
| demon | demonoid, a bittorrent tracker | yellow, has fancy trident | |
| demon | demonii, a bittorrent tracker | blue, has a fancy trident | |
| butterfly | OpenBitTorrent - An open tracker project | ||
| pig | Oink's Pink Palace, a bittorrent tracker | RIP | |
| demon | demonsaw | green | |
| unicorn | BlackUnicorn - A demonsaw project | ||
| Harvey (?) | pooka (?) | harvey OS | harvey is, of course, invisible, but casts a shadow that looks like Glenda. This is based on the character Harvey from the play Harvey. |
| K-9 | Robot Dog | K-9 Mail | Based on the character “K-9” from Doctor Who |
| Archie | Archie | Archie Search Engine. No real mascot | |
| Veronica | Veronica | Veronica Search Engine. No real mascot | |
| Jughead/tail | Jughead/tail | Jughead/tail Search Engine. No real mascot | |
| Sandy | ferret | sandy (text editor) | I heard on the internet it was named after a dead ferret http://sandyeditor.sourceforge.net/ |
| otter | OTTER (resolution-style theorem prover) | ||
| humanoid robot woman | linuxfreedom.com | ||
| duck | DaisyDuck (audiobook player) | Daisy Duck is a copyrighted disney character | |
| sparrow | SparrowOS, a public domain operating system | SparrowOS was later changed to TempleOS | |
| egyptian eye | Sphinx a “Python Documentation Generator” | ||
| owl | pocoo, “The Pocoo Team consists of people from the Python community that are working under one umbrella on various Python libraries and applications.” | ||
| Aleoh | bird | Whyville | I have no evidence that this is a real mascot that existed for anything except for an entry on the wikipedia list of mascots that was removed for fancruft |
| Snoo | Alien | Snoo is the mascot for the website, not the code | |
| fish | ogg file format | it's a file format, not a software project | |
| Travis(?) | Human | Travis CI | Requires further investigation |
| Ruby-chan | Human | Ruby | http://www.yoshidam.net/Ruby-chan/ |
| Human | Archive Warrior | I can't imagine that Archive Warrior is proprietary, but I can't seem to find the license… http://www.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=ArchiveTeam_Warrior | |
| Wile E. Coyote | Coyote | Wily228)229) | Wile E. Coyote is a copyrighted cartoon character |
| turtle | Ingres (database) | requires more research | |
| demon-ghost? | Lumina Desktop Environment230) | requires additional research | |
| triangle with a face | NNTPchan231) | requires additional research | |
| rodent | Advogato232) | not software, just an advocacy group | |
| Libbie | Cyber Oryx | LibreOffice | “Tyson [Tan] submitted a mascot (Libbie the Cyber Oryx) for LibreOffice during a contest run by The Document Foundation in late 2017 however his entry was unsuccessful”233) as the contest was cancelled. |
Lists of Mascots
Lists That Have Been Completely Integrated into the Above List
Sources, completely covered:234)
- http://en.academic.ru/dic.nsf/enwiki/235205/List_of_mascots (just a mirror of the wikipedia page from an earlier point in time)
- http://www.liquisearch.com/list_of_mascots/computing_mascots(just a mirror of the wikipedia page from an earlier point in time)
Lists That Have NOT Been Completely Integrated into the Above List
62)
Android-mascot-style
69)
for this is the name by which a picture of the wizard is summoned in the imagemagick program
87)
also known as 🐸TTS in project documentation
111)
KDE Advanced Text Editor
151)
a very funky rendition: http://serenityos.org/happy/1st/2019-06-14.png
181)
Amphiprion Percula
194)
listed as Celtic Sun God in some places
207)
Officially there is no official name
208)
seems to have no name beyond “Lisp Alien”
209)
one anonymous source in personal communication imaginatively gives as aliases for this apparently unnamed mascot “Yhtraccm” (“McCarthy” backwards), Namssuseleets (“Steele” and “Sussman” backwards), “λambdy” or “lambdy” (diminutive form of “lambda”), and “yambdaλ” or “yambdal” (presumably a form of the word “lambda” with some semblance of rotational symmetry)
210)
“lispy” would also seem fitting to me.
211)
https://www.lisperati.com/logo.html Public Domain Lisp Logo Set By Conrad Barski, M.D. 3D model: http://www.lisperati.com/#!The_Official_Lisp_Alien_3D_Model
234)
it is unclear if some or all of these lists may have expanded since they were last investigated
235)
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