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Azureus
Azureus is a powerful, full-featured, cross-platform bittorrent client. The program's logo is the Blue Poison Dart Frog (Dendrobates azureus).Image
 
It is being shown on the Azureus webpage, as well as within the program's start-up splash screen, from which the project took its name. The name was given to the project by co-creator Tyler Pitchford, who uses the Latin names of Poison Dart Frogs as codenames for his development projects.
 
OpenOffice Seagulls
OpenOffice.org is a multiplatform and multilingual office suite and an open-source project. It is compatible with all other major office suites, the product is free to download, use, and distribute. OpenOffice.org logo includes waves and sea gulls.Image

ImageGulls are birds in the family Laridae. They are most closely related to the terns (family Sternidae), auks, skimmers, and more distantly to the waders. In common usage, members of various gull species are often called seagulls. Gulls - the larger species in particular- are resourceful and highly-intelligent birds, demonstrating complex methods of communication and a highly-developed social structure.
 
Geeko, the Suse Chameleon
ImageSUSE is a major retail Linux distribution, produced in Germany and owned by Novell, Inc. SUSE is also a founding member of the Desktop Linux Consortium.The current mascot of SuSE is Geeko, also known as the "SuSE Lizard".
 
Chameleons (family Chamaeleonidae) are squamates that belong to one of the best-known lizard families. The name "chameleon" means "Earth lion" and is derived from the Greek words chamai (on the ground, on the earth) and leon (lion).
 
GIMP's Wilber
GIMP is the GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed piece of software for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. It works on many operating systems, in many languages. Wilber the coyote is the official mascot of the GIMP, a free bitmap graphics editor.
 
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Wilber was created sometime before September 25, 1997, by Tuomas Kuosmanen, known as tigert, with the GIMP. He received additional accessories from other GIMP developers, which can be found in the Wilber Construction Kit, included in the GIMP source code as /docs/Wilber_Construction_Kit.xcf.gz. 
 
eMule
ImageeMule is a peer-to-peer file sharing application for Microsoft Windows. Started in May 2002 as an alternative to eDonkey2000, eMule now connects to both the eDonkey network and the Kad network.

In its common modern meaning, a mule is the offspring of a male donkey and a female horse. The reverse, the offspring of a male horse and a female donkey, is called a hinny. The term "mule" (Latin mulus) was formerly applied to the offspring of any two creatures of different species – in modern usage, a "hybrid".
 
ClamWin Antivirus
ClamWin is a Free Antivirus for Microsoft Windows 98/Me/2000/XP and 2003, which comes with an easy installer and open source code. ClamWin Free Antivirus Logo consists of shell of the snail.Image

ImageThe name snail applies to most members of the molluscan class Gastropoda that have coiled shells. Snails are found in freshwater, marine, and terrestrial environments. Snails move by alternating body contractions with stretching, with a proverbially low speed. They produce mucus in order to help locomotion by reducing friction. The mucus also reduces the snail's risk of injury.
 
Mozilla Firefox
Mozilla Firefox is a graphical web browser developed by the Mozilla Corporation and a large community of external contributor. The logo of the web browser is firefox.Image

ImageFox is a general term applied to any one of roughly 27 species of small to medium-sized omnivorous canids in the tribe vulpini with sharp features and a brush-like tail. By far the most common species of fox is the Red Fox (Vulpes vulpes), although different species are found on almost every continent.
 
Thunderbird
ImageMozilla Thunderbird is a free, cross-platform e-mail and news client developed by the Mozilla Foundation. Originally launched as Minotaur shortly after Phoenix (the original name for Mozilla Firefox), the project failed to gain momentum. With the success of the latter, however, demand increased for a mail client to go with it, and the work on Minotaur was revived under the new name of Thunderbird, and migrated to the new toolkit developed by the Firefox team.
 
Thunderbird is a mythical creature common to Native American religion and is probably the genesis of the other uses of the word. This extra large bird was a sussposed meat eater and there have been accounts of human attacks in recent years,also thought to be related to the semimythical pheonix. 
 
Tux the Penguin
It is the most famous animal of Open Source World. Tux (also known as Tux the Penguin) is the official mascot of the Linux kernel.Image

The concept of the Linux mascot being a penguin came from Linus Torvalds, the creator of Linux. Tux was created by Larry Ewing in 1996 after an initial suggestion made by Alan Cox and further refined by Linus Torvalds on the Linux kernel mailing list . The first person to call the penguin "Tux" was James Hughes who said that it stood for "(T)orvalds (U)ni(X)".

 

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