Linux mascot Tux the penguin hits 30 years old — Linus Torvalds outlined the design of the 'slightly overweight penguin' on May 9, 1996
The contented penguin had to be overweight like it had eaten a bucketful of herring, as the only other kind of happy penguin is one that has ‘just gotten laid,’ reasoned the Linux supremo.
https://www.tomshardware.com/software/linux/linux-mascot-tux-the-penguin-hits-30-years-old-linus-torvalds-outlined-the-design-of-the-slightly-overweight-penguin-on-may-9-1996Open linkView original on piefed.social
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Fuckin lmao, I was not prepared for the reasoning
Release the “Just got laid” Tux version!
I'm sure Rule 34 has produced endless variety of these if you dare look for them.
there aren't that many
be the change you want to see in the world
Classic Linus.
Bro over here body-shaming the fucking Linux mascot.
overweight for a human, incredibly sexy for a penguin.
"oh my god i think he could incubate TWO eggs at once!"
Xenia will forever be the true Linux mascot in my heart.
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Xenia? For when you want to run Linux on an IBM compatible with a 500Mb drive, CD-ROM and a 14.4 modem?
Holy shit I misread "outlined" as "outlived" and had a mini panic attack until I reread the sentence.
I don't think tux is going anywhere, because there really isn't a need for a user-facing logo for the kernel.
What users will see are logos for the specific distro, and those have been pretty good for like 2 decades now.
Is the penguin biting Linus a real story or urban legend?