Saturday, June 2, 2007

Tux or the Linux penguin??

Yeah.....Both refers to "Penguin"....the Linux Logo. But why this logo??
In the beginning, sometime in early 1996, there were talk on the linux-kernel mailing list about a suitable logo/mascot for Linux. Suggestions flooded in, of them many involved parodies of other operating system logo's - or were strong, noble beasts such as Sharks or Eagles. At some point Linus Torvalds (the father of Linux) casually mentioned that he was rather fond of "Penguins"....and so there you are..

2 comments:

Rohit said...

Wow!
that was a great eye opener.
thanks a lot.

Unknown said...

Great! Quite informative.
Thx.