Tux/Gallery

The BSD Daemon is the mascot of the original Berkeley Software Distribution of the Unix operating system. 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.

Tux the penguin, drawn by Larry Ewing as described by Linus Torvalds

An early sketch of Tux, depicting how Linux's early developers felt their operating system was geared up for competition with other operating systems. Tux as a plush toy Lego sculpture by Eric Harshbarger Another Harshbarger sculpture, this time with the BSD Daemon A Tux tattoo