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A collection of images about BSD Daemon.

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The BSD Daemon is the mascot of the original Berkeley Software Distribution of the Unix operating system.[1][2] The name is derived from a common Unix application called a daemon, which is a program that runs solely in the background, typically with no human intervention (web servers such as Apache typically run as daemons). The BSD Daemon commonly carries a triton (also known as a pitchfork) as a play on the way Unix processes rely on the fork function to start other processes.
The BSD Daemon as drawn by John Lasseter

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BSD Daemon Copyright 1988 by Marshall Kirk McKusick. All Rights Reserved. Used with permission.
  1. "History of the BSD Daemon" (Retreived 12-April-2007).
  2. "The BSD Daemon" (Retreived 12-April-2007).