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Who Came Up With The Linux Penguin ???
is hella cute...was it that swedish guy...
#2
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He likes penguins so thats why he came up with the linux penguin
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Tux was actaully drawn by Larry Ewing. as a competition entry to make a mascot, which linus ands others had already chosen to be a penguin in 1996
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Linus is Finish, from Helsinki, not sweedish.
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Originally posted by NSKL Linus is Finish, from Helsinki, not sweedish.
ok...thanks for that...my ex WAS very thick...
x
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was? so.. he's got cleverer since then?
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no he did not...lighten up you...
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Re: Who Came Up With The Linux Penguin ???
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Originally posted by super_me is hella cute...was it that swedish guy...
Check out the following site. It gives a complete history of Tux (the penguin).
http://www.woodsoup.org/projs/tux_aqfh/doc/
Rick
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ok...thanks rick...
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Face it, we need a chatroom for pointless discussions like these. Oh, think of all the wasted records in Jeremy's otherwise perfectly orderly MySQL database...
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sewer_monkey, give it a rest huh?
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Although it would be great, i fully understand why most are against it, i read the posts about it before
#13
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Linus Torvalds is Finnish, but he speaks Swedish.
6% of Finland's population speaks that tongue.
Also, check out
http://www.linux.org/info/penguin.html
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