List of computing mascots

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.

  • Only those have been formally confirmed by their project as official mascots are listed

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]
  • 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
  • CowDuck

D
  • 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.[8]

E
  • elePHPant, a cartoon elephant, is the mascot of PHP, a server-side scripting language designed primarily for web development.[9]
  • eMule, a cartoon mule, is the mascot of eMule, a free and open-source peer-to-peer file sharing application for Microsoft Windows.[10]

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.[11]
  • Ferris, a crab, who is the unofficial mascot of the Rust language.

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.[12]
  • Geeko, a stylized chameleon, is the mascot of SUSE Linux, a Linux-based free and open-source computer operating system family.[13]
  • 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.[14]
  • 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.[15]
  • Gooey, a cartoon octopus, is the mascot of WebGUI, a free and open-source content management system.[16]
  • Gopher, a cartoon gopher, is the mascot of Go, a free and open-source programming language.

H

K
  • Kandalf, a cartoon wizard, is the former mascot of KDE. Replaced by Konqi.
  • Kate the woodpecker, a cartoon robotic woodpecker, is the mascot of Kate, a free and open-source advanced text editor for software developers, features syntax highlighting, code folding, layout customization, regular expression support, and extensibility.[17]
  • 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.[18]
  • 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.[19]
  • Konqi, Katie and friends, a community of cartoon dragons, are the mascots of KDE, an international community that develops free and open-source software; the dragons are also the mascots of KDE Projects, software they have developed, including KDE Plasma workspace, KDE Frameworks, the software foundation of other KDE Applications.[20]

L
  • Lenny, a penguin with blue hair, who is the mascot for Lubuntu.

M
  • 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.
  • 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.[21]
  • 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.[22]
  • Mastodon mascot is a sitting Proboscidean or mammoth.
  • Moby Dock, a cartoon whale that hauls shipping containers on its back
  • Mozilla, the former mascot of the Mozilla free software community.

O

P
  • 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.[25]
  • Purple Pidgin, a cartoon pigeon, is the mascot of Pidgin, a free and open-source multi-platform instant messaging client.[26]

R
  • 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.[27]

S

Sayches (mascot), a hybrid animal; a fish that has an elephant's trunk, with a mysterious smile.[28]

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.[29]

W
  • Wilber, a cartoon anthropomorphic coyote, is the mascot of GIMP, a free and open-source raster graphics editor designed for image editing, drawing, image format conversion and others.[30]
  • Wombat imbedded in DATATRIEVE. The wombat was adopted as the mascot of product group for DATATRIEVE. References where included in the help system for the product, and a graphic demonstration using the "PLOT WOMBAT" command.

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.[31]

Z
  • Zero the Ziguana is one of the two official mascots of the programming language Zig.[32]
  • Ziggy the Ziguana is the second official mascot of Zig.[32]
  • Ziggy, a mascot of Zig.
  • Zero, a mascot of Zig.

See also

References
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