Origin of Tux the Penguin Logo?

flite2mars

Hello, new bee here. I was wondering if anyone knows why a penguin was chosen as the Linux logo? I like Tux and think he's cool, but from a marketing standpoint, isn't a "flightless" bird kind of like a car company namning a new model "Impact"?

Maybe Linux Marketing can use a sloglan like,

"If your old OS doesn't fly and just sux,

switch to Linux and leave the flying to Tux."

Thank you. I'm here all week.

mpalmeruk

Hi,

it was something to do with Linus saying he liked penguins, I think he wrote about it in his book "Just for fun" as well.

this wiki article has the original post/debate:

http://www.sjbaker.org/wiki/index.php?title=The_History_of_Tux_the_Linux_Penguin

hope that helps

regards

Matt

flite2mars

Ah-so! Thank you, I read the link, very interesting! And yeah, he kind of does look like he just had a very good time with a female penguin, and a smoke and a nap too!

Thanks again!

marc

Nice readings, thanks for the links guys!

Regards

Goineasy9

Look at the 20th Anniversary story of Linux video on the front page it explains everything. Heh.

marc

Goineasy9 wrote:

Look at the 20th Anniversary story of Linux video on the front page it explains everything. Heh.

Well, now that we are at it...

http://www.linux.com/news/featured-blogs/167-amanda-mcpherson/427944-celebrate-20-years-of-linux-with-us

Is the first page I've ever visited that fails to detect my flash player installation. Let's see if I can workaround it and get the video...

God, I hate this closed source binary apps grrrrrrrr

Regards

Goineasy9

There has to be something wrong with that link, I'm getting the missing plugin also.

This is the link it leads to:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ocq6_3-nEw

marc

The video made me think of the old IBM comercial about linux. It was fantastic:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2XOx7NMlxM