The Raccoon Mascot
MINIX 3 has a mascot: a raccoon. The raccoon was chosen because raccoons are small, agile, intelligent, friendly -- and best of all -- eat bugs (at least, when there are no garbage cans available). And, being cute doesn't hurt either.
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The MINIX 3 raccoon has no name yet; so, in the spirit of open names, we would like MINIX 3 users to come up with a name. Robert Raccoon? Roberta Raccoon? Roger Raccoon? Andrew Raccoon? Raccoox? Racux? Suggest your own name. Need some inspiration? Here are some useful resources: List of fictional raccoons, Raccoon Name Generator, Yahoo! Answers, Exotic Pet Names
- Bandit
- Beefy
- Bengy
- Bugeat
- Bugeater
- Con, i liked the sound of con coon, (plus it's a short name for someone i love dearly) .
- Coo
- Dimix
FABIS, the raccoon (friendly agile bug-eating intelligent small)
- Hackoon
- Hax
- Jan M. van Rakenbaoem
- Mapachito ("Small raccoon" in Spanish)
- Marty
- Max
- Mina
- Minnie - as in a "mini" kernal. Probably about time for a female mascot as well...
- Mix
- Mux (Note that, in electrical engineering, "MUX" also stands for "multiplexer" -- MINIX behaves a bit like a "software multiplexer".)
- Pax
- pikpik (+1)
- Ralph
- Ravage
- Rax
- Razzie
- Reliable Ringtail (nickname: "Ring")
- Rix
- Robbie
- Rock - as in solid/stable, and the short form of "Rocky", friendly/fun.
- Rocky
- Tiny