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FreeBSD marketing:

  - FreeBSD is like Linux but <>
  - It is more <> than Linux
  - It is less <> than Linux
  - It has more <> than Linux
  - It has less <> than Linux
  - Linux LINUX Linux LINUX LINUX

OpenBSD marketing:

Look, cute fish.

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FreeBSD and Linux have pretty cute mascots too.

Puffy is exclusive to OpenBSD. Tux and Beastie are more generic.

Also:

"Early versions of OpenBSD (2.3 and 2.4) used a BSD Daemon with a halo, and briefly used a daemon police officer for version 2.5. Then, however, OpenBSD switched to Puffy, a blowfish, as a mascot." [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BSD_Daemon

Edit:

You're absolutely right that there seems to be some kind of power fantasy among the FreeBSD crowd about crushing Linux.

Just do an image search for "BSD Daemon" and see the g(l)orious fan-art.

> OpenBSD marketing:

OPENBSD IS SECURE. ARE YOU SECURE? ARE YOU WORTHY? OPENBSD: SO SECURE WE DO NOT NEED YOU!

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