This is a list of computing mascots. A

mascot A mascot is any human, animal, or object thought to bring luck, or anything used to represent a group with a common public identity, such as a school, professional sports team, society, military unit, or brand name. Mascots are also used as fi ...

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.

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* Adiumy, a cartoon duck, is the mascot of

Adium Adium is a free and open source instant messaging client for macOS that supports multiple IM networks, including Google Talk and XMPP. In the past, it has also supported AIM, ICQ, Windows Live Messenger and Yahoo! Messenger. Adium is written usi ...

, a free and open-source instant messaging client for macOS. * Amanda the Panda, a cartoon panda, is the mascot of

Window Maker Window Maker is a free and open-source window manager for the X Window System, allowing graphical applications to be run on Unix-like operating-systems. It is designed to emulate NeXTSTEP's GUI as an OpenStep-compatible environment. Window Maker ...

, a free and open-source window manager for the X Window System. File:Adium.png, Adiumy, the mascot of

. File:Amanda the panda mascot of window maker.png, Amanda the Panda, the mascot of

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* Beanbird, mascot of LG’s

webOS webOS, also known as LG webOS and previously known as Open webOS, HP webOS and Palm webOS, is a Linux kernel-based multitasking operating system for smart devices such as smart TVs that has also been used as a mobile operating system. Initially ...

operating system. *

Blinky Blinky may refer to: Characters * ''Blinky'' (comics), a character in the UK comic ''The Dandy'' * Blinky (ghost), a red (sometimes orange) ghost in the ''Pac-Man'' franchise * Blinky (mascot), the mascot of FreeDOS * Blinky (The Simpsons), thr ...

, a cartoon fish, is the mascot of

FreeDOS FreeDOS (formerly Free-DOS and PD-DOS) is a free software operating system for IBM PC compatible computers. It intends to provide a complete MS-DOS-compatible environment for running legacy software and supporting embedded systems. FreeDOS can ...

, a free and open-source DOS implementation for IBM PC compatible computers. * Beastie, the

BSD Daemon The BSD Daemon, nicknamed Beastie, is the generic mascot of BSD operating systems. The BSD Daemon is named after '' software daemons'', a class of long-running computer programs in Unix-like operating systems—which, through a play on words, ta ...

, a cartoon demon, is the mascot of

BSD The Berkeley Software Distribution or Berkeley Standard Distribution (BSD) is a discontinued operating system based on Research Unix, developed and distributed by the Computer Systems Research Group (CSRG) at the University of California, Berk ...

, a free and open-source Unix operating system derivative that also has many derivations out of itself. *

Bugdroid Android is a mobile operating system based on a modified version of the Linux kernel and other open-source software, designed primarily for touchscreen mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets. Android is developed by a consortium of de ...

, mascot of the Android operating system * Buggie, a cartoon anthropomorphic bug, is the mascot of

Bugzilla Bugzilla is a web-based general-purpose bug tracking system and testing tool originally developed and used by the Mozilla project, and licensed under the Mozilla Public License. Released as open-source software by Netscape Communications in 199 ...

, a free and open-source web-based general-purpose bugtracker and testing tool. File:Blinky.svg,

, the mascot of

File:Daemon-phk.svg, A rendition of the

Poul-Henning Kamp Poul-Henning Kamp (; born 1966) is a Danish computer software developer known for work on various projects including FreeBSD and Varnish. He currently resides in Slagelse, Denmark. Involvement in the FreeBSD project Poul-Henning Kamp has been c ...

File:Buggie new.png, Buggie, the mascot of

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Camelia Camelia may refer to: * Camelia (singer) (born 1974), Malaysian singer and model * Camelia (actress) (19191950), Egyptian actress * Camelia (name), a list of people with the name * Camelia, a character in the telenovala ''Camelia la Texana'' * Cam ...

, a cartoon bug with butterfly-like wings, is the mascot of Raku. *CowDuck, a cartoon hybrid with the head of a cow and the body of a duck is the mascot of

TerminusDB TerminusDB is an open source knowledge graph and Document-oriented database, document store. It is used to build versioned data products. It is a Native (computing), native Version control, revision control database that is architecturally simil ...

. File:Camelia.svg,

, the mascot of Raku File:Libreboot logo.svg, Canteloupe, mascot of

Libreboot Libreboot (briefly known as GNU Libreboot) is a free software project based on coreboot, aimed at replacing the proprietary BIOS firmware contained by most computers. Libreboot is a lightweight system designed to perform only the minimum number ...

File:TerminusDB Color Mascot.png, CowDuck

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Dash The dash is a punctuation mark consisting of a long horizontal line. It is similar in appearance to the hyphen but is longer and sometimes higher from the baseline. The most common versions are the endash , generally longer than the hyphen ...

, a hummingbird, is the mascot for the Dart language and the Flutter framework. The hummingbird represents that Dart is a speedy language. *

DotNet Bot The domain name net is a generic top-level domain (gTLD) used in the Domain Name System of the Internet. The name is derived from the word ''network'', indicating it was originally intended for organizations involved in networking technologies ...

(typically stylized as "dotnet bot" or "dotnet-bot") is the official community mascot of the .NET free and open source software framework. *

Duke Duke is a male title either of a monarch ruling over a duchy, or of a member of royalty, or nobility. As rulers, dukes are ranked below emperors, kings, grand princes, grand dukes, and sovereign princes. As royalty or nobility, they are rank ...

, a stylized, unspecified creature, is the mascot of

Java Java (; id, Jawa, ; jv, ꦗꦮ; su, ) is one of the Greater Sunda Islands in Indonesia. It is bordered by the Indian Ocean to the south and the Java Sea to the north. With a population of 151.6 million people, Java is the world's mos ...

, a system for developing application software and deploying it in a cross-platform computing environment. File:Dotnet-bot.svg, The

, mascot of .NET File:Duke (Java mascot) waving.svg,

, the mascot of

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elePHPant PHP is a general-purpose scripting language geared toward web development. It was originally created by Danish-Canadian programmer Rasmus Lerdorf in 1993 and released in 1995. The PHP reference implementation is now produced by The PHP Group ...

, a cartoon elephant, is the mascot of

PHP PHP is a general-purpose scripting language geared toward web development. It was originally created by Danish-Canadian programmer Rasmus Lerdorf in 1993 and released in 1995. The PHP reference implementation is now produced by The PHP Group. ...

, a server-side scripting language designed primarily for web development. *

eMule eMule is a free peer-to-peer file sharing application for Microsoft Windows. Started in May 2002 as an alternative to eDonkey2000, eMule now connects to both the eDonkey network and the Kad network. The distinguishing features of eMule are ...

, a free and open-source peer-to-peer file sharing application for Microsoft Windows, is represented by a cartoon mule of the same name. File:Webysther 20160423 - Elephpant.svg,

, the mascot of

File:EMule mascot.png,

, the mascot of

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* Freedo, a cartoon anthropomorphic penguin, is the mascot of

Linux-libre Linux-libre is a modified version of the Linux kernel that contains no binary blobs, obfuscated code, or code released under proprietary licenses. In the Linux kernel, they are mostly used for proprietary firmware images. While generally r ...

, a free and open-source operating system kernel derived from Linux kernel, packaged by GNU to have all the proprietary components removed. * The crab Ferris is the unofficial mascot of the

Rust Rust is an iron oxide, a usually reddish-brown oxide formed by the reaction of iron and oxygen in the catalytic presence of water or air moisture. Rust consists of hydrous iron(III) oxides (Fe2O3·nH2O) and iron(III) oxide-hydroxide (FeO( ...

language. * Apache Beam Firefly is the mascot of

Apache Beam Apache Beam is an open source unified programming model to define and execute data processing pipelines, including ETL, batch and stream (continuous) processing. Beam Pipelines are defined using one of the provided SDKs and executed in one of ...

. File:Freedo.svg, Freedo, the mascot of

. File:Original Ferris.svg, Ferris, the mascot of

File:Apache_Beam_firefly_mascot.svg, Apache Beam Firefly, the mascot of

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Gavroche Gavroche () is a fictional character in the 1862 novel ''Les Misérables'' by Victor Hugo. He is a boy who lives on the streets of Paris. His name has become a synonym for an urchin or street child. Gavroche plays a short yet significant role i ...

, a cartoon goblin, is the mascot of

GNU MediaGoblin GNU MediaGoblin (also shortened to MediaGoblin or GMG) is a free, decentralized Web platform (server software) for hosting and sharing many forms of digital media. It strives to provide an extensible, federated, and freedom-respectful softw ...

, 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 Plan 9 from Bell Labs is a distributed operating system which originated from the Computing Science Research Center (CSRC) at Bell Labs in the mid-1980s and built on UNIX concepts first developed there in the late 1960s. Since 2000, Plan 9 has be ...

, a free and open-source distributed operating system that manages all computing resources through its file system rather than specialized interfaces. *

GNU GNU () is an extensive collection of free software (383 packages as of January 2022), which can be used as an operating system or can be used in parts with other operating systems. The use of the completed GNU tools led to the family of operat ...

– or just the drawing "GNU head", an anthropomorphic wildebeest head—is the mascot—or just the logo—of

, a free and open-source operating system and an extensive collection of computer software; it is also the mascot of

GNU Project The GNU Project () is a free software, mass collaboration project announced by Richard Stallman on September 27, 1983. Its goal is to give computer users freedom and control in their use of their computers and computing devices by collaborat ...

, a free-software, mass-collaboration project. * Gooey, a cartoon octopus, is the mascot of WebGUI, a free and open-source content management system. * The free and open-source Go programming language is represented by a gopher. File:Gavroche mascot of GNU MediaGoblin.png,

, the mascot of

MediaGoblin GNU MediaGoblin (also shortened to MediaGoblin or GMG) is a free, decentralized Web platform (server software) for hosting and sharing many forms of digital media. It strives to provide an extensible, federated, and freedom-respectful softwa ...

File:OpenSUSE Logo.svg, Geeko, the mascot of SUSE family. File:Glenda bunny mascot of plan 9 from bell black.jpg, Glenda, the Plan 9 Bunny, the mascot of

. File:Heckert GNU white.svg, GNU head, the logo of

. File:WebGUI mascot Gooey purple octopus.jpg, Gooey, the mascot of WebGUI File:Golang.png, Gopher, the mascot of Go.

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* Hexley, a cartoon platypus, is the mascot of Darwin.

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* Kandalf, a cartoon wizard, is the former mascot of

KDE KDE is an international free software community that develops free and open-source software. As a central development hub, it provides tools and resources that allow collaborative work on this kind of software. Well-known products include the ...

. * Kate the Cyber Woodpecker, a cartoon robotic woodpecker, is the mascot of

Kate Kate name may refer to: People and fictional characters * Kate (given name), a list of people and fictional characters with the given name or nickname * Gyula Káté (born 1982), Hungarian amateur boxer * Lauren Kate (born 1981), American autho ...

, a free and open-source advanced text editor for software developers. *

Kiki the Cyber Squirrel Krita ( ) is a free and open-source raster graphics editor designed primarily for digital art and 2D animation. The software runs on Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, and ChromeOS, and features an OpenGL-accelerated canvas, colour management su ...

, a cartoon anthropomorphic robotic squirrel, is the mascot of

Krita Krita ( ) is a free and open-source raster graphics editor designed primarily for digital art and 2D animation. The software runs on Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, and ChromeOS, and features an OpenGL-accelerated canvas, colour management sup ...

, 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 AROS Research Operating System (AROS, pronounced "AR-OS") is a free and open-source software, free and open-source multi media centric implementation of the AmigaOS 3.1 application programming interface (API). Designed to be portable and flexib ...

, a free and open-source multimedia centric implementation of the AmigaOS 3.1 APIs. * Konqi is the primary mascot of

, an international community that develops free and open-source software, and

KDE Projects KDE Projects are projects maintained by the KDE community, a group of people developing and advocating free software for everyday use, for example KDE Plasma and KDE Frameworks or applications such as Amarok, Krita or Digikam. There are also non ...

, software they have developed, including KDE Plasma workspace,

KDE Frameworks KDE Frameworks is a collection of libraries and software frameworks readily available to any Qt-based software stacks or applications on multiple operating systems. Featuring frequently needed functionality solutions like hardware integration, fi ...

, and the software foundation of other

KDE Applications The KDE Gear (also known as the KDE Applications Bundle or KDE Applications) is a set of applications and supporting libraries that are developed by the KDE community, primarily used on Linux-based operating systems but mostly multiplatform, and ...

. A number of other dragons also exist, such as Katie, associated with KDE Women's Project. * Kotlin mascot is the currently unnamed mascot of the Kotlin programming language. File:KDE Mascot Konqi by Tyson Tan.png, Konqi, the mascot of

. File:KDE Women mascot Katie for KDE development applications.png,

Katie Katie is an English feminine name. It is a form Katherine, Kate, Caitlin, Kathleen, Katey and their related forms. It is frequently used on its own. People Sports * Katie Boulter (born 1996), British tennis player * Katie Clark (born 1994), Bri ...

, the mascot of KDE Women's Project. File:Konqi and his colorful friends.png, KDE dragons, the mascots of KDE Community. File:Kate the Cyber Woodpecker mascot 2021.png, Kate the Cyber Woodpecker, the mascot of Kate editor. File:Kiki the Cyber Squirrel mascot of Krita cropped square profile.png,

, the mascot of

. File:AROS mascot Kitty.png, Kitty, the mascot of

AROS Aros may refer to: *Aros (Middle-earth), a river in J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth legendarium * Aros, Mull, the location of Aros Castle, a ruined 13th-century castle on the Isle of Mull, Scotland *AROS Research Operating System, a free software i ...

. File:Kandalf wizard mascot kde.png, Kandalf, the former mascot of

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* Lenny, a penguin with blue hair, who is the mascot for

Lubuntu Lubuntu ( ) is a lightweight Linux distribution based on Ubuntu and uses the LXQt desktop environment in place of Ubuntu's GNOME desktop. Lubuntu was originally touted as being "lighter, less resource hungry and more energy-efficient", but now ...

. *

Larry Larry is a masculine given name in English, derived from Lawrence or Laurence. It can be a shortened form of those names. Larry may refer to the following: People Arts and entertainment * Larry D. Alexander, American artist/writer *Larry Boone ...

, a hand-drawn cow, is one of Gentoo's unofficial mascots. *The Lisp mascot is an quadruped alien with more than four eyes and a single arm extending from the nose File:Lubuntu Lenny.svg, Lenny, the

mascot File:Larry the cow.png, Larry the cow, the unofficial Gentoo mascot. File:Lisplogo alien 256.png, The Lisp alien

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* Moby Dock, a cartoon whale that hauls shipping containers on its back, is the mascot of Docker, a set of

platform as a service Platform as a service (PaaS) or application platform as a service (aPaaS) or platform-based service is a category of cloud computing services that allows customers to provision, instantiate, run, and manage a modular bundle comprising a computing ...

(PaaS) products. *

Mozilla Mozilla (stylized as moz://a) is a free software community founded in 1998 by members of Netscape. The Mozilla community uses, develops, spreads and supports Mozilla products, thereby promoting exclusively free software and open standards, w ...

, a cartoon anthropomorphic lizard and later a stylized tyrannosaurus rex, is the retired mascot of

Mozilla Foundation The Mozilla Foundation (stylized as moz://a) is an American non-profit organization that exists to support and collectively lead the open source Mozilla project. Founded in July 2003, the organization sets the policies that govern development, ...

, a non-profit organization that supports and leads

, a free-software community that developed

Firefox Mozilla Firefox, or simply Firefox, is a free and open-source web browser developed by the Mozilla Foundation and its subsidiary, the Mozilla Corporation. It uses the Gecko rendering engine to display web pages, which implements current ...

, a free and open-source web browser and many related projects. File:Docker_(container_engine)_logo.svg, Moby Dock, a cartoon whale that hauls shipping containers on its back File:Mozilla dinosaur head logo.png,

, the former mascot of the Mozilla free software community.

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* Octocat, an

anthropomorphized Anthropomorphism is the attribution of human traits, emotions, or intentions to non-human entities. It is considered to be an innate tendency of human psychology. Personification is the related attribution of human form and characteristics t ...

cat with five octopus-like arms is

GitHub GitHub, Inc. () is an Internet hosting service for software development and version control using Git. It provides the distributed version control of Git plus access control, bug tracking, software feature requests, task management, continu ...

's mascot.

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* The Apache

Pig The pig (''Sus domesticus''), often called swine, hog, or domestic pig when distinguishing from other members of the genus '' Sus'', is an omnivorous, domesticated, even-toed, hoofed mammal. It is variously considered a subspecies of ''Sus ...

, an anthropomorphic pig, is the mascot of Apache Pig. * Preston, a puffin, is the mascot of PrestaShop, a free and open-source e-commerce platform. * 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. * The Powershell Hero, a flat shaded humanoid character, is the mascot of Microsoft Powershell 7, Microsoft's open-source shell. * Camel, a camel, is the mascot of

Perl Perl is a family of two high-level, general-purpose, interpreted, dynamic programming languages. "Perl" refers to Perl 5, but from 2000 to 2019 it also referred to its redesigned "sister language", Perl 6, before the latter's name was offic ...

, a high-level programming language. File:Puffy.jpg, Puffy, mascot of OpenBSD. File:Pidgin.svg, The Purple Pidgin, mascot of Pidgin.

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* The

Raft consensus algorithm Raft is a consensus algorithm designed as an alternative to the Paxos family of algorithms. It was meant to be more understandable than Paxos by means of separation of logic, but it is also formally proven safe and offers some additional featu ...

mascot is a log raft with a face. Created by Andrea Ruygt, and made a vector by Diego Ongaro *

Rocky Raccoon "Rocky Raccoon" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles from their 1968 double album ''The Beatles'' (also known as the "White Album"). It was primarily written by Paul McCartney, although credited to the Lennon–McCartney partnership. M ...

, a cartoon raccoon, is the mascot of

MINIX 3 Minix 3 is a small, Unix-like operating system. It is published under a BSD-3-Clause license and is a successor project to the earlier versions, Minix 1 and 2. The project's main goal is for the system to be fault-tolerant by detecting and rep ...

, a free and open-source project to create a small, high availability, high functioning Unix-like operating system. File:Raft Consensus Algorithm Mascot on transparent background.svg, The

Raft A raft is any flat structure for support or transportation over water. It is usually of basic design, characterized by the absence of a hull. Rafts are usually kept afloat by using any combination of buoyant materials such as wood, sealed barrels ...

consensus algorithm mascot. File:Rocky Raccoon mascot of MINIX 3.jpg,

, the mascot of

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* Sara is the mascot of OpenGameArt.org File:OpenGameArt Sara.jpg, Sara, the mascot of OpenGameArt.org.

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Tux Black tie is a semi-formal wear, semi-formal Western dress code for evening events, originating in British and American conventions for clothing, attire in the 19th century. In British English, the dress code is often referred to synecdochically ...

, 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. * Tizen Genie, former mascot of the Tizen operating system for phones. File:Tux2.png,

, the mascot of Linux kernel.

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* Wilber is the mascot of GIMP, a free and open-source raster graphics editor designed for image editing, drawing, image format conversion and others. *

Wombat Wombats are short-legged, muscular quadrupedal marsupials that are native to Australia. They are about in length with small, stubby tails and weigh between . All three of the extant species are members of the family Vombatidae. They are ada ...

s are associated with

DATATRIEVE DATATRIEVE is a database query and report writer tool originally from Digital Equipment Corporation. It runs on the OpenVMS operating system, as well as several PDP-11 operating systems. DATATRIEVE's command structure is nearly plain English, a ...

, being adopted as the mascot of its product group. References were included in the help system for the product, and a graphics demonstration using the "PLOT WOMBAT" command displays the character. File:Wilber-gimp.png, Wilber, the mascot of GIMP.

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* 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. File:Xfce logo-footprint.svg, Xue, the mascot of Xfce.

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* Zero the Ziguana and Ziggy the Ziguana are the two official mascots of the programming language Zig. * Znurt the Flying Saucer is one of Gentoo Linux's unofficial mascots. File:Ziggy the Ziguana.svg, Ziggy, a mascot of Zig. File:Zero the Ziguana.svg, Zero, a mascot of Zig.

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