“Beastie,” the FreeBSD Mascot
Linux has “Tux” the penguin; it seems only fair that FreeBSD should have its own mascot as well. So why is it a devil?
Figure 1.1. The popular BSD “Beastie” mascot artwork, © Kirk McKusick. In what should amuse animation fans, Pixar’s John Lasseter drew this and several other renditions of Beastie.
The short answer is that it’s not a devil—it’s a daemon. Daemons are the background processes that handle all automated tasks the system needs done. Daemons are actually wonderfully helpful things. If you’ve ever sent an email or visited a web page, you have used the services of a daemon without even knowing it. Windows ...
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