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Re: Linux Logo (fwd)




Penguin it is...

btw, latest kernel is pre2.0.3 :-)

I'm fucked. no one will buy the CDs now...


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---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Mon, 13 May 1996 22:50:30 +0200 (IST)
From: Or Tal <ortal@aquanet.co.il>
To: shvat shaked <shvat@luke.gilo.jlm.k12.il>,
    ira abramov <ira@bushwack.gilo.jlm.k12.il>
Subject: Re: Linux Logo (fwd)


apart from this letter beeing a 'fun read', people make a god out of 
linus. like: what does he love. and if he loves it, do it.

  Or Tal  <ortal@aquanet.co.il>

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Date: Sun, 12 May 1996 09:39:19 +0300 (EET DST)
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@cs.helsinki.fi>
To: Mike Wangsmo <wanger@fubar.cs.montana.edu>
Cc: Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu>
Subject: Re: Linux Logo



On Sat, 11 May 1996, Mike Wangsmo wrote:
> 
> THis will probably come off as a stupid question, but I need to know.  
> Ever since I started using Linux and *listening* to the kernel type 
> listservs, I have heard about the pengiun being a symbol.  However, other 
> than hearing that Linus really likes penguins, I have no idea what a 
> penguin has to do with Linux.  Could someone fill this gap in my 
> knowledge (without too much flaming for ignorance) as to what the 
> significance of the penguin is?

Umm.. You don't have any gap to fill in.

"Linus likes penguins". That's it. There was even a headline on it in 
some Linux Journal some time ago (I was bitten by a Killer Penguin in 
Australia - I'm not kidding). Penguins are fun.

As to why use a penguin as a logo? No good reason, really. But a logo 
doesn't really ave to _mean_ anything - it's the association that counts. 
And I can think of many worse things than have linux being associated 
with penguins.

Having a penguin as a logo also gives more freedom to people wanting to 
use linux-related material: instead of being firmly fixed with a specific 
logo (the triangle, or just "Linux 2.0" or some other abstract thing), 
using something like a penguin gives people the chance to make 
modifications that are still recognizable. 

So you can have a real live penguin on a CD cover, for example, and 
people will get the association. Or you can have a penguin that does 
something specific (a Penguin writing on wordperfect for the WP Linux CD, 
whatever - you get the idea).

Compare that to a more abstract logo (like the windows logo - it's not a 
bad logo in itself). You can't really do anything with a logo like that. 
It just "is".

Anyway, go to "http://www.isc.tamu.edu/~lewing/linux/" for some nice 
examples..

		Linus