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Puffy is the mascot
Mascot

The term mascot ? defined as a term for any person, animal, or object thought to bring luck ? colloquially includes anything used to represent a group with a common public identity, such as a school, professional sports team, society, military unit, or Brand....
 of the free
Free software

Free Software or software libre is software that can be used, studied, and modified without restriction, and which can be copied and redistributed in modified or unmodified form either without restriction, or with minimal restrictions only to ensure that further recipients can also do these things and to prevent consumer-facing hardware...
 operating system
Operating system

An operating system is an interface between hardware and applications; it is responsible for the management and coordination of activities and the sharing of the limited resources of the computer....
 OpenBSD
OpenBSD

OpenBSD is a Unix-like computer operating system descended from Berkeley Software Distribution , a Unix derivative developed at the University of California, Berkeley....
. Puffy is a porcupinefish
Porcupinefish

Porcupinefish are fish of the family Diodontidae, , also commonly called blowfish .They are sometimes confused with pufferfish....
, which is used to signify the intention of the developers to make an impregnably secure operating system.

Puffy is also the mascot of the child projects of OpenBSD: OpenSSH
OpenSSH

OpenSSH is a set of computer programs providing encryption communication sessions over a computer network using the Secure Shell protocol. It was created as an open source alternative to the proprietary Secure Shell software suite offered by SSH Communications Security....
, OpenNTPD
OpenNTPD

OpenNTPD is a Unix system Daemon implementing the Network Time Protocol to synchronize the local clock of a computer system with remote NTP servers....
, OpenCVS
OpenCVS

OpenCVS is a BSD license implementation of the popular Unix version control software called Concurrent Versions System. OpenCVS is developed as a part of the OpenBSD project by Jean-Francois Brousseau, Joris Vink, Xavier Santolaria, Niall O'Higgins and others....
, OpenOSPFD and OpenBGPD
OpenBGPD

OpenBGPD allows general purpose computers to be used as routers. It is a Unix system Daemon that provides a free, open-source implementation of the Border Gateway Protocol version 4....
. Puffy was selected because of the blowfish algorithm
Blowfish (cipher)

In cryptography, Blowfish is a key ed, symmetric key algorithm block cipher, designed in 1993 by Bruce Schneier and included in a large number of cipher suites and encryption products....
 used in OpenSSH and the strongly defensive image of the porcupinefish
Porcupinefish

Porcupinefish are fish of the family Diodontidae, , also commonly called blowfish .They are sometimes confused with pufferfish....
, whose spikes help deter predators. He quickly became very popular, mainly because of the cute image of the fish and his distinction from the beastie
BSD Daemon

The BSD daemon, nicknamed Beastie, is the generic mascot of BSD operating systems....
 used by FreeBSD
FreeBSD

FreeBSD is a Unix-like free software operating system descended from AT&T Unix via the Berkeley Software Distribution branch through the 386BSD and Berkeley Software Distribution#4.4BSD and descendants operating systems....
, the horde of daemons then used by NetBSD
NetBSD

NetBSD is a freely redistributable, open source version of the Unix-derivative Berkeley Software Distribution computer operating system. It was the second open source BSD descendant to be formally released, after 386BSD, and continues to be actively developed....
, and Tux
Tux

Tux is the official mascot of the Linux kernel. Originally created as an entry to a Linux logo competition, the image of the mascot is the most commonly used icon for Linux, used in many flavors showing Tux in one way or another....
, the Linux
Linux

Linux is a generic term referring to Unix-like computer operating systems based on the Linux kernel. Their development is one of the most prominent examples of free and open source software collaboration; typically all the underlying source code can be used, freely modified, and redistributed by anyone under the terms of the GNU GPL license...
 penguin.






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Puffy is the mascot
Mascot

The term mascot ? defined as a term for any person, animal, or object thought to bring luck ? colloquially includes anything used to represent a group with a common public identity, such as a school, professional sports team, society, military unit, or Brand....
 of the free
Free software

Free Software or software libre is software that can be used, studied, and modified without restriction, and which can be copied and redistributed in modified or unmodified form either without restriction, or with minimal restrictions only to ensure that further recipients can also do these things and to prevent consumer-facing hardware...
 operating system
Operating system

An operating system is an interface between hardware and applications; it is responsible for the management and coordination of activities and the sharing of the limited resources of the computer....
 OpenBSD
OpenBSD

OpenBSD is a Unix-like computer operating system descended from Berkeley Software Distribution , a Unix derivative developed at the University of California, Berkeley....
. Puffy is a porcupinefish
Porcupinefish

Porcupinefish are fish of the family Diodontidae, , also commonly called blowfish .They are sometimes confused with pufferfish....
, which is used to signify the intention of the developers to make an impregnably secure operating system.

Puffy is also the mascot of the child projects of OpenBSD: OpenSSH
OpenSSH

OpenSSH is a set of computer programs providing encryption communication sessions over a computer network using the Secure Shell protocol. It was created as an open source alternative to the proprietary Secure Shell software suite offered by SSH Communications Security....
, OpenNTPD
OpenNTPD

OpenNTPD is a Unix system Daemon implementing the Network Time Protocol to synchronize the local clock of a computer system with remote NTP servers....
, OpenCVS
OpenCVS

OpenCVS is a BSD license implementation of the popular Unix version control software called Concurrent Versions System. OpenCVS is developed as a part of the OpenBSD project by Jean-Francois Brousseau, Joris Vink, Xavier Santolaria, Niall O'Higgins and others....
, OpenOSPFD and OpenBGPD
OpenBGPD

OpenBGPD allows general purpose computers to be used as routers. It is a Unix system Daemon that provides a free, open-source implementation of the Border Gateway Protocol version 4....
. Puffy was selected because of the blowfish algorithm
Blowfish (cipher)

In cryptography, Blowfish is a key ed, symmetric key algorithm block cipher, designed in 1993 by Bruce Schneier and included in a large number of cipher suites and encryption products....
 used in OpenSSH and the strongly defensive image of the porcupinefish
Porcupinefish

Porcupinefish are fish of the family Diodontidae, , also commonly called blowfish .They are sometimes confused with pufferfish....
, whose spikes help deter predators. He quickly became very popular, mainly because of the cute image of the fish and his distinction from the beastie
BSD Daemon

The BSD daemon, nicknamed Beastie, is the generic mascot of BSD operating systems....
 used by FreeBSD
FreeBSD

FreeBSD is a Unix-like free software operating system descended from AT&T Unix via the Berkeley Software Distribution branch through the 386BSD and Berkeley Software Distribution#4.4BSD and descendants operating systems....
, the horde of daemons then used by NetBSD
NetBSD

NetBSD is a freely redistributable, open source version of the Unix-derivative Berkeley Software Distribution computer operating system. It was the second open source BSD descendant to be formally released, after 386BSD, and continues to be actively developed....
, and Tux
Tux

Tux is the official mascot of the Linux kernel. Originally created as an entry to a Linux logo competition, the image of the mascot is the most commonly used icon for Linux, used in many flavors showing Tux in one way or another....
, the Linux
Linux

Linux is a generic term referring to Unix-like computer operating systems based on the Linux kernel. Their development is one of the most prominent examples of free and open source software collaboration; typically all the underlying source code can be used, freely modified, and redistributed by anyone under the terms of the GNU GPL license...
 penguin. Although Puffy is usually said to be a pufferfish, in fact pufferfish do not possess spikes; images of Puffy are closer to a similar species, the porcupinefish
Porcupinefish

Porcupinefish are fish of the family Diodontidae, , also commonly called blowfish .They are sometimes confused with pufferfish....
.

Puffy is a popular motif on T-shirt
T-shirt

A T-shirt is a shirt which is pulled on over the head to cover most of a person's torso. A T-shirt is usually buttonless, collarless, and pocketless, with a round neck and short sleeves....
s and posters of the project, and also appears in song
Song

A song is a musical musical composition which contains vocal parts that are performed, 'sung,' and feature words , commonly accompanied by musical instruments ....
s which are released along with the operating system. Puffy made his first public appearance in OpenBSD 2.6. Since his conception, each release has seen a different version of Puffy presented on t-shirts and posters. These include:
  • Puffy Baba - An honest merchant
  • Pufferix and Bobilix delivering The Three Discs of Freedom
  • Doctor Puffystein - A genius doctor, fighting The Blob
    Binary blob

    In Free software community, binary blob is a pejorative term for an Objective Code Linker into the Kernel of a free software or open-source software operating system without publicly available source code....
     through reverse engineering
    Reverse engineering

    Reverse engineering is the process of discovering the technological principles of a device, object or system through analysis of its structure, function and operation....
  • Puffiana Jones - famed hackologist and adventurer, seeking out the Lost RAID
    RAID

    RAID is an acronym first defined by David A. Patterson , Garth A. Gibson and Randy Katz at the University of California, Berkeley in 1987 to describe a Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks, a technology that allowed computer users to achieve mainframe-class storage reliability from low-cost and less reliable PC-class disk-drive componen...
  • Puffathy - a little Alberta
    Alberta

    Alberta is one of Canada Canadian Prairies Provinces and territories of Canada. It became a province on September 1, 1905.Alberta is located in western Canada, bounded by the provinces of British Columbia to the west and Saskatchewan to the east, the Northwest Territories to the north, and the U.S....
     girl, who must work with Taiwan
    Taiwan

    Taiwan is an island in East Asia. "Taiwan" is also commonly used to refer to the country governed by the Republic of China and to the ROC itself, which governs the island of Taiwan, Orchid Island and Green Island, Taiwan in the Pacific Ocean off the Taiwan coast, the Penghu islands in the Taiwan Strait, and Kinmen and the Matsu Islands...
     to save the day
  • Pond-erosa Puff - a no-guff freedom fighter from the wild west, set to hang a lickin' on no-good bureaucratic nerds
  • Customer - a fish seeking to licence his free redundancy protocol, CARP
    Common Address Redundancy Protocol

    The Common Address Redundancy Protocol or CARP is a protocol which allows multiple hosts on the same local network to share a set of IP addresses....
  • Sir Puffy of Ramsay - a freedom fighter who, with Little Bob of Beckley, took from the rich and gave to all
  • Puff the Barbarian - born in a tiny bowl, Puff was a slave, now he hacks through the C
  • James Pond
    James Pond

    James Pond is a computer platform game that was developed by Millennium Interactive and published by Electronic Arts for the Amiga and other platforms in 1990 in video gaming....
    , agent 077 - super spy and suave lady's man
  • Puffy, the Kitten Slayer - hunting down the evil script kitties
  • Puff Daddy - famed rapper and political icon
  • The Businessman - holding tight to his documents
  • Security Guards - keeping any eye out for the usual suspects
  • The SSH
    Secure Shell

    Secure Shell or SSH is a network protocol that allows data to be exchanged using a secure channel between two networked devices. Used primarily on Linux and Unix based systems to access shell accounts, SSH was designed as a replacement for TELNET and other Computer security remote Shell s, which send information, notably passwords, in...
    erif - lawman with his faithful steed Codey
  • a fish in an empty bowl, surround by fish bones and a cat

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