The free software mascots thread
Posted: 18 Dec 2012, 06:42Here I post a list of some not-so-very-well-known free software mascots.
SuperTuxKart is a racing game about mascots racing each other, so having a list of free software mascots could be very handy.
Unfortunately, I am totally unskilled with 3D modeling, so I can’t contribute any karts. Just ideas. ;-)
I don't post mascots which already are part of the game or published in an add-on package.
If you know any other mascots of free software, just post them here. I want to have an extensive list of mascots so that future contributers can look here for ideas.
In the list, I post the name, a short desription, the name of the software where the mascot belongs to and some links for your orientation. If I put "???" for the name it means I don't know the name. Most likely those mascots don't have a name at all.
Here’s the list:
Following entries may not be mascots, because they look more like icons. However, they may be an interesting thought.
SuperTuxKart is a racing game about mascots racing each other, so having a list of free software mascots could be very handy.
Unfortunately, I am totally unskilled with 3D modeling, so I can’t contribute any karts. Just ideas. ;-)
I don't post mascots which already are part of the game or published in an add-on package.
If you know any other mascots of free software, just post them here. I want to have an extensive list of mascots so that future contributers can look here for ideas.
In the list, I post the name, a short desription, the name of the software where the mascot belongs to and some links for your orientation. If I put "???" for the name it means I don't know the name. Most likely those mascots don't have a name at all.
Here’s the list:
- Freedo
- a cute blue penguin with a towel and a scrubber
- mascot of Linux-libre, a modified version of Linux without the non-free kernel modules
- http://fsfla.org/svnwiki/selibre/linux-libre/freedo.svg
- kart by Gaming4JC: http://forum.freegamedev.net/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=4009
- Larry the Cow
- a cow
- mascot of Gentoo Linux, a Linux distribution
- http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/artwork/artwork.xml
- Puppy
- a chihuahua
- mascot of Puppy Linux, a Linux distribution
- http://www.puppylinux.com/amy/index.html
- Tux
- Tux smoking a pipe
- mascot of Slackware, a Linux distribution
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Slackware-mascot.png
- Bola
- a cat
- mascot of Parabola, a Linux-libre distribution
- https://wiki.parabola.nu/images/a/aa/Logo%2Bgnu%2Bbola.png (picture shows the GNU mascot and Bola)
- More infos: https://www.parabola.nu/news/parabola-h ... -bola-cat/
- Fred
- a dragonfly
- mascot of DragonFly BSD, an operating system
- http://www.dragonflybsd.org/mascot/
- Slonik
- a blue elephant, but not like ElePHPant
- mascot of PostgreSQL, a database system
- http://developer.postgresql.org/~josh/graphics/logos/elephant.png
- http://www.postgresql.org/about/press/presskit90/en/#images
- Sakila
- a dolphin
- mascot of MySQL, a database system
- https://dev.mysql.com/resources/SakilaSampleDB.html
- ???
- a gopher
- mascot of the Go programming language
- http://golang.org/doc/gopher/gopherbw.png
- ???
- a lion
- mascot of TeX Live
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Logo_TeX_Live.svg
- Gavroche (is now OFFICIAL part of STK. Thank you!)
- a goblin
- mascot of GNU MediaGoblin, a media distribution system for the web
- http://mediagoblin.org/images/home_goblin.png
- fanart: http://mediagoblin.org/blog_images/justin_nichol_mediagoblin_trans.png
- http://mediagoblin.org/
- proof for the name: http://lists.mediagoblin.org/pipermail/devel/2012-December/000372.html
- Get the .blend files here!
- Perl Camel
- a camel
- symbol of the Perl programming language
- http://www.perl.org/camel.html
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Perl-camel-small.png (warning: non-commercial restriction)
- ???
- a flying monkey holding a painting tube
- mascot/icon of GreaseMonkey, an AddOn for Firefox
- http://www.greasespot.net/
- ???
- a dragon in an egg
- mascot of qBittorrent
- http://www.qbittorrent.org/
Following entries may not be mascots, because they look more like icons. However, they may be an interesting thought.
- ???
- an icy weasel
- icon of Iceweasel, Debian’s fork of Firefox
- http://www.geticeweasel.org/
- ???
- an icy cat
- icon of IceCat, GNU’s fork of Firefox
- https://www.gnu.org/software/gnuzilla/icecat.png
- https://www.gnu.org/software/gnuzilla/
- ??? (is now OFFICIAL part of STK as “Xue”. Thank you!)
- a rat
- icon/“mascot” (???) of Xfce, a window manager
- modeler may need lots of fantasy
- http://www.xfce.org/
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