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Origin of Tux the Penguin Logo?
flite2mars
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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.
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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
Matt0 -
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!0 -
Nice readings, thanks for the links guys!
Regards0 -
Look at the 20th Anniversary story of Linux video on the front page it explains everything. Heh.0
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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
Regards0 -
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-nEw0 -
The video made me think of the old IBM comercial about linux. It was fantastic:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2XOx7NMlxM0
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