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You can find the original image and an explanation of how Larry painted him here. Larry is on record as having first painted Tux using GIMP (The GNU Image Manipulation Program).

Well, thanks Linus - without your help, I'd be writing a video game about a triangle with 'Linux 2.0' written inside it!ДЄ contest was proposed to pick a suitable Penguin logo - but from what I can see of the email at the time, Larry Ewing's famous Penguin painting won more or less by popular acclaim. You can't really do anything with a logo like that.ДЄnyway, go to ' ' for some nice examples.

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Something specific (a Penguin writing on wordperfect for the WP Linux CD,Д¬ompare that to a more abstract logo (like the windows logo - it's not aД«ad logo in itself). So you can have a real live penguin on a CD cover, for example, and

Modifications that are still recognizable. Using something like a penguin gives people the chance to make Logo (the triangle, or just 'Linux 2.0' or some other abstract thing), Use linux-related material: instead of being firmly fixed with a specific Having a penguin as a logo also gives more freedom to people wanting to But a logoДoesn't really ave to _mean_ anything - it's the association that counts.ДЄnd I can think of many worse things than have linux being associated Penguins are fun.ДЄs to why use a penguin as a logo? No good reason, really. Some Linux Journal some time ago (I was bitten by a Killer Penguin inДЄustralia - I'm not kidding). This email from Linus in response to this very question seems to explain the significance of the Penguin: But the simple, single penguin wouldД«e the logo, and the others would just be that cuddly penguin being used That moreДetailed version can spank billy-boy to tears for all I care, or play Then we can do a larger version with some more detail (maybe leaningДЄgainst a globe of the world, but I don't think we really want to giveДЄny 'macho penguin' image here about Atlas or anything). What a cuddly penguin, I bet he is just _stuffed_ with herring', and smallД¬hildren will jump up and down and scream 'mommy mommy, can I have one too?'. Not a lot of detail - just a blackД«rush-type outline (you know the effect you get with a brush where the With this image firmly etched on your eyeballs, you Sitting down after having gorged itself on herring. Ok, so we should be thinking of a lovable, cuddly, stuffed penguin Off by eating raw fish, think 'chocolate' or something, but you get the Now, if you have problems associating yourself with something that gets (*) Not FAT, but you should be able to see that it's sitting down because When you have just eaten a few gallons of raw fish and you can feel another It's sitting there with a beatific smile - the world is a good place to be Penguin (*), sitting down after having gorged itself, and having just burped. So when you think 'penguin', you should be imagining a slighly overweight Should be looking at the 'stuffed to its brim with herring' angle here. Randy penguin (well, we do, but it's not politic, so we won't), so we Now, working on that angle, we don't really want to be associated with a Penguins, those are really the only two options. Now, with penguins, (cuddly such), 'contented' means it has either just 'cuddly' for a while (and go on breathing), then think 'contented'. Now, when you think about penguins, first take a deep calming breath, and Hold up the world, and it's going to get squashed. Somebody had a logo competition announcement, maybe people can send theirДЄnyway, this one looks like the poor penguin is not really strong enough to Here is the famous email from Linus - in response to Dale Scheetz' efforts to produce a such an image: At some point (I'm not sure when), Linus Torvalds (the father of Linux) casually mentioned that he was rather fond of Penguins - which rather stopped the debate in its tracks.ДЄfter several attempts to draw Penguins in various poses, someone suggested a Penguin holding up the world. Of the many, many suggestions, many involved parodies of other operating system logo's - or were strong, noble beasts such as Sharks or Eagles. In the beginning, sometime in early 1996, several people were talking on the linux-kernel mailing list about a suitable logo/mascot for Linux. 11 But aren't Penguins a bit - well - feeble?.10 Controversy and Anti-Penguin Sentiment.8 Tux Makes a Difference (it's Official).

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