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]

B[]

  • Blinky, a cartoon fish, is the mascot of FreeDOS, a free and open-source DOS implementation for IBM PC compatible computers.[3]
  • 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.[4]
  • Buggie, a cartoon anthropomorphic bug, is the mascot of Bugzilla, a free and open-source web-based general-purpose bugtracker and testing tool.[5]

C[]

  • Camelia, a cartoon bug with butterfly-like wings, is the mascot of Raku.[6]
  • CowDuck, a cartoon hybrid with the head of a cow and the body of a duck is the mascot of TerminusDB.[7]

  • Camelia, the mascot of Raku

  • CowDuck

D[]

  • DotNet Bot (typically stylized as "dotnet bot" or "dotnet-bot") is the official community mascot of the .NET free and open source software framework.[8]
  • 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.[9]

  • The DotNet Bot, mascot of .NET

  • Duke, the mascot of Java.

E[]

  • elePHPant, a cartoon elephant, is the mascot of PHP, a server-side scripting language designed primarily for web development.[10]
  • 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.[11]

  • elePHPant, the mascot of PHP

  • eMule, the mascot of eMule.

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.[12]
  • The crab Ferris is the unofficial mascot of the Rust language.[13]

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.[14]
  • Geeko, a stylized chameleon, is the mascot of SUSE Linux, a Linux-based free and open-source computer operating system family.[15]
  • 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.[16]
  • 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.[17]
  • Gooey, a cartoon octopus, is the mascot of WebGUI, a free and open-source content management system.[18]
  • The free and open-source Go programming language is represented by a gopher.[19]

H[]

  • Hexley, a cartoon platypus, is the mascot of Darwin.[20]

K[]

  • Kandalf, a cartoon wizard, is the former mascot of KDE.[21]
  • Kate the Cyber Woodpecker, a cartoon robotic woodpecker, is the mascot of Kate, a free and open-source advanced text editor for software developers.[22]
  • 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.[23]
  • 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.[24]
  • 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.[21]

L[]

  • Lenny, a penguin with blue hair, who is the mascot for Lubuntu.[25]
  • Larry, a hand-drawn cow, is one of Gentoo's unofficial mascots.[26]
  • The Lisp mascot is an quadruped alien with more than four eyes and a single arm extending from the nose[27]

  • Lenny, the Lubuntu mascot

  • Larry the cow, the unofficial Gentoo mascot.

  • The Lisp alien

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.[28]
  • 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.[29]

  • Moby Dock, a cartoon whale that hauls shipping containers on its back

  • Mozilla, the former mascot of the Mozilla free software community.

O[]

  • Octocat, an anthropomorphized cat with five octopus-like arms is GitHub's mascot.[30][31]

P[]

  • The Apache Pig, an anthropomorphic pig, is the mascot of Apache Pig.[32]
  • 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.[33]
  • Purple Pidgin, a cartoon pigeon, is the mascot of Pidgin, a free and open-source multi-platform instant messaging client.[34]
  • The Powershell Hero, a flat shaded humanoid character, is the mascot of Microsoft Powershell 7, Microsoft's open-source shell.[35]

R[]

  • The Raft consensus algorithm mascot is a log raft with a face. Created by Andrea Ruygt, and made a vector by Diego Ongaro[36]
  • The Rustacean is the mascot of the Rust programming language.
  • 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.[37]

  • The Raft consensus algorithm mascot.

  • 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.[38]

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.[39]
  • Wombats are associated with DATATRIEVE, being adopted as the mascot of its product group. References where included in the help system for the product, and a graphic demonstration using the "PLOT WOMBAT" command.[40]

  • Wilber, the mascot of GIMP.


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.[41]

  • Xue, the mascot of Xfce.

Z[]

  • Zero the Ziguana and Ziggy the Ziguana are the two official mascots of the programming language Zig.[42]
  • Znurt the Flying Saucer is one of Gentoo Linux's unofficial mascots.[26]

  • Ziggy, a mascot of Zig.

  • Zero, a mascot of Zig.

See also[]

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