Mascots of free software and open source: The best known

Mascots of free software and open source: The best known

Mascots of free software and open source: The best known

When we think about launching a project, product, good or service, or simply creating a group or a community around something in particular, one of the first things we usually do is create a good name and a good logo for the same. And it is that, a good name and logo is essential to enhance the level of success of whatever we do and believe. In fact, both are just as important as having high quality creations, products or projects and positive references.

And as regards the development of IT projects (Distributions, applications and systems) of free and open source software, this has been something very striking, since it is usually inspired by the use of pets, which are generally animals. . Being a good example of this, "Tux" The Linux Penguin and "Wildebeest" The GNU Antelope. However, as there are many good examples, and taking advantage of the fact that yesterday, May 09, the anniversary of the creation of the Linux mascot was celebrated, today we will mention some of the best known «Mascots of free software and open source».

Ubuntu 19.04 Disco Dingo

Ubuntu 19.04 Disco Dingo

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Mascots of free software and open source: Tux, Gnu and more

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Top 10 of the Mascots of free software and open source most known

Top 10 of the best-known Mascots of free software and open source

  1. Wildebeest: It is the mascot of the GNU project.
  2. Penguin: It is the mascot of the Linux kernel.
  3. Mono: It is the mascot of Mono Project.
  4. Dolphin: It is the mascot of MySQL Database Software.
  5. Camel: It is the mascot of the PERL programming language.
  6. cheetah: It is the mascot of the Free Pascal compiler.
  7. Elephant: It is the mascot of the projects PHP y PostgreSQL.
  8. Red panda: It is the mascot of the Firefox web browser.
  9. Chipmunk: It is the mascot of the SquirrelMail web mail manager.
  10. Gaviotas: It is the mascot of the OpenOffice office suite.

Another 10 animal mascots known from free and open programs

  1. Anaconda: Red Hat Distro Installer.
  2. Whale: Docker container manager.
  3. Squid: Squid proxy server.
  4. Chameleon: Suse Linux Distribution.
  5. Shrimps: IDE Prawns.
  6. Swordbearer Xifo Fish: OGG Vorbis Audio Compressor.
  7. bluefish: Bluefish WYSIWYM web development editor.
  8. yellow puffer fish: OpenBSD distribution.
  9. Piton: Python programming language.
  10. Dragon-fly: DragonFly BSD distribution.

Finally, and to broaden the subject a little more about the linux logos, in a future publication we will talk about other pets of people, mythical animals and things of other free and open developments.

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Summary

In summary, we hope that this interesting post with this great list of the best known «Free Software and Open Source Animal Mascots» It is very useful documentary or bibliographical to anyone who for various reasons should know in particular about one or some of them. And if you know of any other animal mascot from any other free and open project, we invite you to tell us about it, via comments for everyone's knowledge.

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  1.   admissions said

    Actually the animal in Firefox is a red panda

    1.    Joseph Albert said

      Regards, Dmits. Thanks for your comment. It is already corrected.

  2.   Armando Mendoza placeholder image said

    firefox mascot is not a fox https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1074033
    Otherwise, all good

    1.    Joseph Albert said

      Regards, Armand Thank you for your comment and contribution. It is already corrected.