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Tux the penguin is the official logo and cartoon mascot for the Linux computer operating system. First drawn in 1996 by Larry Ewing, the fun-loving character has a special place in many people's imaginations, both inside and outside of the global Linux community.	Tux the penguin, drawn by Larry Ewing as described by Linus Torvalds
An early sketch of Tux, depicting how Linux's early developers felt their operating system was geared up for competition with other operating systems. Tux as a plush toy Lego sculpture by Eric Harshbarger Another Harshbarger sculpture, this time with the BSD Daemon A Tux tattoo

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-|The '''BSD Daemon''' is the mascot of the original [[Berkeley Software Distribution]] of the [[Unix]] [[operating system]].<ref name="History of the BSD Daemon">{{cite web|url=http://www.mckusick.com/beastie/|title="History of the BSD Daemon"|date=Retreived 12-April-2007}}</ref><ref name="BSD Daemon History from freebsd.org">{{cite web|url=http://www.freebsd.org/copyright/daemon.html|title="The BSD Daemon"|date=Retreived 12-April-2007}}</ref> 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 HTTP Server|Apache]] typically run as daemons). The BSD Daemon commonly carries a [[triton]] (also known as a [[pitchfork]]) as a play on the way [[Unix]] [[process|processes]] rely on the [[fork]] function to start other processes.
+|'''Tux''' the [[penguin]] is the official logo and cartoon mascot for the [[Linux]] computer [[operating system]]. First drawn in 1996 by Larry Ewing, the fun-loving character has a special place in many people's imaginations, both inside and outside of the global Linux community.
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