Here is a list of mascots or animals, which symbolise free software related projects. Some descriptions were taken from Wikipedia articles. If you think I forget a mascot, if you have information about them (name, creator, ...) please send me an email.
| GNU |  | This graphic was drawn by Etienne Suvasa. More information. |
| GNU |  | This graphic was drawn by the Nevrax Design Team. More information. |
| Linux |  | Tux is the official mascot of the Linux operating system, created by Larry Ewing in 1996. See also derived Tux mascots. |
| OpenBSD |  | Puffy was selected because of the blowfish algorithm used in OpenSSH and the strongly defensive image of the puffer, whose spikes help deter predators. He quickly became very popular, mainly because of the cute image of the fish and his distinction from the beastie used by FreeBSD, the horde of daemons then used by NetBSD and Tux, the Linux penguin. More info on Wikipedia, more pictures, Puffy's posters or T-shirts. See also derived Puffy mascots. |
| DragonFlyBsd |  | named Fred, and as stated on http://www.dragonflybsd.org/mascot/, "Fred is one mean looking insect, the go-lucky demon and the fat penguin are TOAST!". |
| FreeBsd |  | The proper name is just "BSD Daemon". Those insisting on a name call him "Beastie", likely a phonetic pronunciation of BSD (BeeS Dee). The copyright of the BSD Daemon is held by Marshall Kirk McKusick. The current popular version of BSD Daemon was drawn by animation director John Lasseter on March 22, 1988. |
| TrustedBSD |  | TrustedBSD Daemon Copyright 2000 by Leigh Denault. All rights reserved. BSD Daemon Copyright 1988 by Marshall Kirk McKusick. All rights reserved. |
| Darwin |  | Hexley was designed and copyrighted by Jon Hooper, and you can see Hexley in various poses at: http://www.hexley.com/ |
| Plan9 |  | Named Glenda, drew by Renée French. See also The unofficial home of the Plan 9 Bunny and Glenda, the Plan 9 Bunny, for more information. |
| Minix |  | The Raccoon mascot was named Rocky Raccoon by Prof. Andrew Tanenbaum. A raccoon was chosen because raccoons are small, agile, intelligent, friendly – and best of all – eat bugs (at least, when there are no garbage cans available). And, being cute doesn't hurt either. |
| MikeOS |  | [archive.org version] |
| L4Ka |  | |
| CapROS |  | |
| Nexenta |  | from archive.org |
| Java |  | When Sun announced that Java SE and Java ME would be released under a free software license (the GNU General Public License), they released the Duke graphics under the free BSD license at the same time. More information on the Duke Project Home Page. Duke was originally created by Joe Palrang to be the "agent" for the Green Project at Sun. Duke became the Java mascot when Java technology was first announced, right around the same time that the first Java cup logo was commissioned. |
| KDE |  | Konqi, other logo can be found at http://kde.org/stuff/clipart.php |
| basilisk |  | |
| LLVM |  | The LLVM logo is a stylized wyvern (a kind of dragon). Dragons have connotations of power, speed and intelligence, and can also be sleek, elegant, and modular (err, maybe not). In addition, there is a series of influential compiler books going back to 1977 which featured dragons on the cover. |
| DragonEgg |  | |
| Gimp |  | Wilber was created on September 25, 1997, by Tuomas Kuosmanen. |
| Ogre3d |  | |
| BitTyrant |  | |
| VRaptor |  | |
| Mozilla |  | |
| Perl |  | This image is not free, it comes from O'reilly, and you must acknowledge of its trademark status and put a link to perl.com, as described on http://perl.oreilly.com/usage/. |
| CamelBones |  | |
| Caml |  | |
| Camelbox |  | |
| Sophie |  | |
| Latex |  | |
| PostGreSQL |  | |
| Hadoop |  | Others derived mascots can be found on Hadoop's SVN repository |
| Gnuzilla |  | |
| Zebra |  | [archive.org] |
| Stampede |  | |
| DTrace |  | more info about DTrace Pony. |
| EMule |  | |
| Cariboo |  | |
| Wapiti |  | |
| Org-Mode |  | |
| WindowMaker |  | named Amanda and created by Agnieszka Czajkowska |
| Firefox |  | |
| Kitsune |  | named Bertrand and it is under a WTFPL license |
| FoxyProxy |  | |
| Monkey Bubble |  | from archive.org |
| Free Pascal |  | |
| Dsniff |  | |
| sguil |  | |
| Mono |  | |
| Templeet |  | made by Alexis Younes (Ayo73) |
| Mongrel2 |  | |
| Pugs |  | |
| DOGS | %20Logos/logo%201.JPG) | |
| Lguest |  | |
| Puppy Linux |  | |
| Beagle |  | |
| Tomcat |  | Tomcat, apache project |
| Felix |  | |
| Kat |  | Kawaii, which means "cute" in Japanese, was created by Roberto Cappuccio. |
| IceCat |  | |
| XCB |  | |
| thttpd |  | named Bill the Cat, drawn by Anatole Shaw, comes from User Friendly |
| Lunar Linux |  | |
| Lina |  | [archive.org] |
| RabbIT |  | |
| aMule |  | |
| C-jdbc |  | |
| Castor |  | from [archive.org] |
| Hedinux |  | named Hed |
| NuFW |  | named Nupik |
| Tapiir |  | |
| Snort |  | |
| Pig |  | |
| Workrave |  | |
| monotone |  | |
| Postfix |  | |
| Xfce |  | named Xue. Also from the FAQ, it's a mouse, obviously, for all kinds of reasons like world domination and monsters and such. |
| Rat |  | from archive.org |
| Ratpoison |  | |
| Squirrelmail |  | |
| KSquirrel |  | |
| Spip |  | |
| Bacula |  | |
| Hop |  | |
| AlternC |  | |
| Pidgin |  | |
| Coq |  | |
| Oralux |  | |
| Parrot |  | |
| Pinba |  | |
| pykota |  | |
| RSSOwl |  | |
| OpenOffice.org |  | It looks like more like a logo than a mascot ... but the (sea)gull IS the official OpenOffice.org's mascot |
| XWiki |  | from archive.org. New project logo doesn't have Albatross |
| Gromacs |  | Peregrine image is copyrighted Mike Langman/Pica Design |
| HTCondor |  | |
| openMosix |  | |
| FFMPEG-PHP |  | |
| Pmw |  | |
| Papyrus |  | |
| Firebird |  | |
| Tukaani |  | |
| Toucan |  | |
| Sunbird |  | |
| Thunderbird |  | |
| Songbird |  | project discontinued |
| Nightingale |  | |
| Openswan |  | |
| Rsbac |  | |
| AlphaLinux |  | |
| Scilab |  | It was designed by Dr. HU Baogang |
| Adiumx |  | |
| Koinkoin |  | archive.org |
| pyCoinCoin |  | |
| pyClamAV |  | |
| pympd |  | |
| web.py |  | |
| Python |  | It looks like more like a logo than a mascot ... but the snake IS the python's mascot, guess why ... |
| openSUSE |  | is a veiled chameleon officially named, "GEEKO" (portmanteau of "Gecko" and "geek") |
| TortoiseCVS |  | named Charlie. His full name is Charlie Vernon Smythe (CVS). |
| Kame |  | |
| HylaFAX |  | |
| Hyla |  | [archive.org] |
| HLVM |  | |
| Okopipi |  | This mascot is dead |
| Framakey |  | made by Alexis Younes (Ayo73) |
| Jonas |  | |
| YaCy |  | named Kaskelix, designed by Thomas Quella. |
| Docker |  | |
| FreeDOS |  | |
| Bluefish |  | |
| Gambas |  | |
| Fugu |  | |
| Shiira |  | designed by Niram+Nunca who is a member of Shiira staff. Shiira is the Japanese word for dolphin fish (not the same as the mammal dolphin). |
| Clownix |  | |
| flowplayer |  | |
| Ichthux |  | |
| GlassFish |  | |
| Fish |  | |
| JoomFish |  | |
| Wireshark |  | |
| Mysql |  | The dolphin symbol in the MySQL logo was given the Swazi name Sakila. |
| WebGUI |  | Gooey is the WebGUI mascot. He is a purple octopus. Gooey is a creation of the WebGUI community. He was created by Darci Gibson, an artist from California. She submitted him as part of a community determined contest along with 50 or so other entries. After the WebGUI community chose the octopus as the mascot, they also came up with a list of names for him, and then conducted a poll to see which name was the most popular. The result of all of this community effort is our mascot, Gooey. |
| txt2tags |  | named Octus |
| Hy |  | named cuddles |
| Squid |  | |
| FireFTP |  | |
| PaX |  | |
| Grisbi |  | |
| K3b |  | made by Alexis Younes (Ayo73) |
| Frozen Bubble |  | made by Alexis Younes (Ayo73) |
| Frozen Bubble2 |  | made by Alexis Younes (Ayo73) |
| Gobolinux |  | |
| GoblinX |  | named Goblix |
| Mandriva |  | |
| Ekiga |  | |
| WiiLi |  | |
| Paparazzi |  | |
| Spider |  | |
| Cairo |  | logo created by Richard D. Worth and licenced under the following license |
| Merd |  | |
| FindBugs |  | |
| Bugzilla |  | |
| Dunc-Bank |  | |
| the Month of PHP Bugs |  | |
| Firebug |  | |
| Mantis |  | |
| Prado |  | |
| OpenERP |  | |
| PHProjekt |  | |
| BitlBee |  | |
| Parasite |  | |
| OpenLDAP |  | |
| Datejs |  | |
| Drupal |  | |
| MediaGoblin |  | named Gavroche, the adorable goblin mascot of the GNU MediaGoblin |
| 176 mascots listed. |
Here's some derived mascots made from the original Linux one. Some of them were found on The LWN Penguin Gallery, which contains many more penguin than here, but I only put free mascots which represent free software and opensource related projects.
Here's some Puffy derived mascots.
| OpenSSH |  | |
| OpenBGPD |  | |
| OpenNTPD |  | |
| OpenCVS |  | |
| OpenSMTPD |  | |
| OpenIKED |  | |
| LibreSSL |  | |
| 7 mascots listed. |
