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Comment by santoshalper | Hacker News Reader

It's developed by UNSW Sydney, whose mascot is a Lion. (Specifically, "Clancy the Lion"), so I am guessing it's probably that.

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That's also where John Lions taught.

    John Lions is not Lions OS
       is not        is not
         Clancy the Lion

What does mascot mean

A mascot is an animal figure that represents a product or sports team. For example, the penguin named Tux is the mascot of Linux, and the mascot for the Brisbane Broncos rugby team is the horse named Buck the Bronco.

Mascot is, unrelatedly, also a suburb of Sydney.

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