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.
- Amanda the Panda, a cartoon panda, is the mascot of Window Maker, a free and open-source window manager for the X Window System.
B
- Blinky, a cartoon fish, is the mascot of FreeDOS, a free and open-source DOS implementation for IBM PC compatible computers.
- 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.
- Buggie, a cartoon anthropomorphic bug, is the mascot of Bugzilla, a free and open-source web-based general-purpose bugtracker and testing tool.
C
- Camelia, a cartoon bug with butterfly-like wings, is the mascot of Raku.
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.
E
- elePHPant, a cartoon elephant, is the mascot of PHP, a server-side scripting language designed primarily for web development.
- eMule, a cartoon mule, is the mascot of eMule, a free and open-source peer-to-peer file sharing application for Microsoft Windows.
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.
- 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.
- Geeko, a stylized chameleon, is the mascot of SUSE Linux, a Linux-based free and open-source computer operating system family.
- 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.
- 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.
- Gooey, a cartoon octopus, is the mascot of WebGUI, a free and open-source content management system.
- Gopher, a cartoon gopher, is the mascot of Golang, a free and open-source programming language.
H
- Hexley, a cartoon platypus, is the mascot of Darwin.
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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
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 products.
- 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.
O
- "Octocat," an anthropomorphized cat with five octopus-like arms is GitHub's mascot. See some of Octocat's many forms in the .
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.
- Purple Pidgin, a cartoon pigeon, is the mascot of Pidgin, a free and open-source multi-platform instant messaging client.
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.
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.
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.
- 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.