Hexley

Hexley

Hexley is the mascot of the open source operating system Darwin, which is the core of Apple Inc's Mac OS X operating system. Hexley is a cartoon platypus who usually wears a cap resembling a demon's horns. He carries a trident, similar to the BSD Daemon, to symbolize the daemon's forking of processes.

Hexley was designed and copyrighted by Jon Hooper. Hexley is not affiliated with Apple Inc.

The name was a mistake — it was originally supposed to be named after Thomas Henry Huxley, a 19th century English biologist who was a well-known champion of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution (nick-named "Darwin's bulldog"); however ignorance led not only to a mistake in Huxley's name, but who he was (the developers apparently thought he was simply Darwin's assistant, when in fact he was a prominent biologist in his own right). By the time the mistake had been discovered, however, it was deemed too late to change and the incorrect name "Hexley" was kept. [http://www.hexley.com/history.html]

External links

* [http://www.hexley.net/ The Official Website of Hexley the Platypus] (mirror)


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