[Ilugc] penguin info
- From: praveen@xxxxxxxxxxx (Praveen Kumar)
- Date: Tue, 02 Mar 2004 12:06:23 +0530
iliasahmed a wrote:
Who's logo is penguin (linux/redhat/open source/gnu etc). Why they have
chosen penguin any spl reasons.tks
Penguin is the logo of Linux (kernel alone).
Why a Penguin?
The following is a quote from Linus Torvalds:
Somebody had a logo competition announcement, maybe people can send
their ideas to a web-site..
Anyway, this one looks like the poor penguin is not really strong enough
to hold up the world, and it's going to get squashed. Not a good,
positive logo, in that respect..
Now, when you think about penguins, first take a deep calming breath,
and then think "cuddly". Take another breath, and think "cute". Go back
to "cuddly" for a while (and go on breathing), then think "contented".
With me so far? Good..
Now, with penguins, (cuddly such), "contented" means it has either just
gotten laid, or it's stuffed on herring. Take it from me, I'm an expert
on penguins, those are really the only two options.
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), so we
should be looking at the "stuffed to its brim with herring" angle here.
So when you think "penguin", you should be imagining a slighly
overweight penguin (*), sitting down after having gorged itself, and
having just burped. It's sitting there with a beatific smile - the world
is a good place to be when you have just eaten a few gallons of raw fish
and you can feel another "burp" coming.
(*) Not FAT, but you should be able to see that it's sitting down
because it's really too stuffed to stand up. Think "bean bag" here.
Now, if you have problems associating yourself with something that gets
off by eating raw fish, think "chocolate" or something, but you get the
idea.
Ok, so we should be thinking of a lovable, cuddly, stuffed penguin
sitting down after having gorged itself on herring. Still with me?
NOW comes the hard part. With this image firmly etched on your eyeballs,
you then scetch a stylizied version of it. Not a lot of detail - just a
black brush-type outline (you know the effect you get with a brush where
the thickness of the line varies). THAT requires talent. Give people the
outline, and they should say [ sickly sweet voice, babytalk almost
]"Ooh, what a cuddly penguin, I bet he is just _stuffed_ with herring",
and small children will jump up and down and scream "mommy mommy, can I
have one too?".
Then we can do a larger version with some more detail (maybe leaning
against a globe of the world, but I don't think we really want to give
any "macho penguin" image here about Atlas or anything). That more
detailed version can spank billy-boy to tears for all I care, or play
ice-hockey with the FreeBSD demon. But the simple, single penguin would
be the logo, and the others would just be that cuddly penguin being used
as an actor in some tableau.
Linus
The second quote is from when Linus announced Linux v2.0 on Usenet:
Some people have told me they don't think a fat penguin really embodies
the grace of Linux, which just tells me they have never seen a angry
penguin charging at them in excess of 100mph. They'd be a lot more
careful about what they say if they had.
-- Linus Torvalds
Regards,
Praveen.
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From Mahesh Kuber" <mahesh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Tue Mar 2 09:27:07 2004
From: Mahesh Kuber" <mahesh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Mahesh Kuber)
Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2004 14:57:07 +0530
Subject: [Ilugc] Linux based diskless terminal
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