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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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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