Several Sites with OS-tans wallpaper

Below are several sites with OS-tans wallpapers, I found during some internet surfing :

Konachan

Opera OS tan link

Linux Red-Hat tan link

Apple Ipod Mac OS tans link

Mandrake Mandriva link

Windows me OS-tan link

Firefox and Thunderbird link

Windows CE link

Windows XP Nanami-Edition link


Deviant Art

Maguro-chan's Deviant Arts link

Jin Keota's Deviant Arts link

Bridget Death Child's Deviant Arts link

Huesca000's Deviant Arts link


Other sources

Firefox-ko link

Ubuntu-chan link

Moe Anthropomorphism

When I surf the Wikipedia for some information about anime, I stumbled across an otaku term called Moe Anthropomorphism. Basically it is about making an anime character for an inanimate object, as a personification for the inanimate object. One of such example are Wikipe-tan which is one of the maskot for Wikipedia.

Wikipe-tan, an example for Moe Anthropomorphism

Wikipe-tan appear in several Wikipedia entries describing several otaku related fashions, such as :
1. Miko ( Japanese priestess )
2. Sailor fuku ( a kind of Japanese school uniform )
3. Gothic Lolita
4. Nekomimi (Cat's eared girl).

You can find more picture of Wikipe-tan in :

Kasuga's Deviant Art Gallery

Another example of Moe Anthropomorphism is OS-tan, which describe different kind of Computer Operating System as anime characters. The drawings usually symbolize the characteristic of the Operating System itself.

95-san is a Moe Anthropomorphism of Windows95



2k-tan is a Moe Anthropomorphism of Windows2000

You can find more information about OS-tans in several sites, such as :

1. Troubled Windows Flash Animation

2. Encyclopedia of OS-tans

3. Deviant art -> Linux-tans by Juzo-kun