FreeBSD and Linux have pretty cute mascots too. Puffy is exclusive to OpenBSD. Tux and Beastie are more generic. Also: "Early versions of OpenBSD (2.3 and 2.

FreeBSD and Linux have pretty cute mascots too. Puffy is exclusive to OpenBSD. Tux and Beastie are more generic. Also: "Early versions of OpenBSD (2.3 and 2.4) used a BSD Daemon with a halo, and briefly used a daemon police officer for version 2.5. Then, however, OpenBSD switched to Puffy, a blowfish, as a mascot." [0] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BSD_Daemon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BSD_Daemon Edit: You're absolutely right that there seems to be some kind of power fantasy among the FreeBSD crowd about crushing Linux. Just do an image search for "BSD Daemon" and see the g(l)orious fan-art.