User:Mardus/Free software projects named after animals

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Free software projects named after animals, or which use animal logos.
Software titles in italics indicate discontinued projects.

GNU (logo by Aurelio Heckert), more here
OpenBSD "Puffy", after pufferfish (Tetraodontidae)
Lynx (web browser)
GIMP ("Wilber")
GNU Image Manipulation Program
Amarok music player,
named after a wolf of the same name in Inuit mythology
Vuze, previously Azureus (after Dendrobates azureus)
Arora (web browser) (uses WebKit)

Birds

Pidgin IM
Songbird
OpenOffice.org
Seagulls (Version 2.x).
Baseline code moved by Oracle into an Apache Incubator, where it was renamed to OpenOffice and relicensed to Apache license. Low-activity maintenance.
Forked into LibreOffice, where most development is now concentrated.

Mozilla Sunbird — non-free icon

Linux and related distrbutions

Linux ("Tux")
Slackware Linux. Distro mascot "Tux" smoking a pipe.
Knoppix. A non-derivative penguin logo loosely based on Tux.
SuSE (distro)
~2005 logo, based roughly on Exquisite-suse.png
SuSE
~2005 "Crystal" variant logo, head only
OpenSUSE (distro). "Geeko".
A 2009 non-free logo is also on file
Puppy Linux (distro)

Software related to Gecko

These logos are all non-free, but some of them have made it to Wikimedia Commons unopposed.

Alternative Mozilla logo.
Based on the early Mozilla mascot used at Netscape.

SeaMonkey
Mozilla Thunderbird (non-free logo)
Bugzilla (Buggie in picture)

Non-Mozilla forks and spin-offs

Mostly free logos

K-Meleon
Lightweight browser for Windows
Alternative Mozilla logo used for K-Meleon.
Swiftweasel and Debian IceWeasel (2006)
Web browser
Debian IceWeasel (browser)
Debian Icedove (mail)
Debian Iceape (app suite)
GNU IceCat (browser)

Non-free logos

File:Classilla-Logo.png — Classilla; Software otherwise MPL, GPL.
File:TenFourFox.png — TenFourFox; Software otherwise MPL, GPL.

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