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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>Tux</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../T.html" title="T"/><link rel="previous" href="turist.html" title="turist"/><link rel="next" href="tweak.html" title="tweak"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">Tux</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="turist.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">T</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="tweak.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="Tux"/><dt xmlns="" id="Tux"><b>Tux</b></dt></dt><dd><p> Tux the Penguin is the official emblem of
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<a href="../L/Linux.html"><i class="glossterm">Linux</i></a>, This eventuated after a logo contest in 1996,
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during which Linus Torvalds endorsed the idea of a penguin logo in a couple
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of famously funny <a href="http://www.sjbaker.org/tux/" target="_top">
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postings</a>. Linus explained that he was once bitten by a killer
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penguin in Australia and has felt a special affinity for the species ever
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since. (Linus has since admitted that he was also thinking of Feathers
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McGraw, the evil-genius penguin jewel thief who appeared in a Wallace &
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Grommit feature cartoon, <i class="citetitle">The Wrong Trousers</i>.)</p><p>Larry Ewing <a href="http://www.isc.tamu.edu/~lewing/linux/" target="_top">
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designed</a> the official Tux logo. It has proved a wise choice,
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amenable to hundreds of recognizable variations used as emblems of
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Linux-related projects, products, and user groups. In fact, Tux has spawned
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an entire mythology, of which the <a href="http://www.ao.com/~regan/penguins/tux.html" target="_top"> Gospel According to
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Tux</a> and the mock-epic poem <i class="citetitle">Tuxowolf</i> are
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among the best-known examples.</p><p>There is a ‘real’ Tux — a black-footed penguin
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resident at the Bristol Zoo. Several friends of Linux bought a zoo
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sponsorship for Linus as a birthday present in 1996.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="turist.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../T.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="tweak.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">turist </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> tweak</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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