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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.

Linux mascot Tux the penguin hits 30 years old — Linus Torvalds outlined the design of the 'slightly overweight penguin' on May 9, 1996https://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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tensorpuddingreply
lemmy.world

I'm sure Rule 34 has produced endless variety of these if you dare look for them.

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James R Kirk
startrek.website

Now, working on that angle, we don't really want to be associated with a randy penguin (well, we do, but it's not politic, so we won't)

Classic Linus.

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Swedneckreply
discuss.tchncs.de

overweight for a human, incredibly sexy for a penguin.
"oh my god i think he could incubate TWO eggs at once!"

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stoy
lemmy.zip

Holy shit I misread "outlined" as "outlived" and had a mini panic attack until I reread the sentence.

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Swedneck
discuss.tchncs.de

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.

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