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Description:The concept of the Linux mascot being a penguin came from Linus Torvalds, the creator of Linux. Tux was created by Larry Ewing in 1996 after an...

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Description:Torvalds was looking for something fun and sympathetic to associate with Linux, and a slightly fat penguin sitting down after having had a great...

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Description:Linus took his inspiration from a photograph he found on an FTP site, showing a penguin figurine looking strangely like the Creature Comforts...

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Description:The first person to call the penguin "Tux" was James Hughes who said that it stood for "(T)orvalds (U)ni(X)".

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Description:Tux was designed for a Linux logo contest. Confusingly, there were actually three separate contests and Tux didn't win any of them. This is why Tux...

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Description:Tux has become iconic for Linux, with one British Linux user group adopting a live Black-Footed (Jackass) penguin at Bristol Zoo on the occasion of...

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Description:Torvalds' supposed illness is of course a joke, but he really was bitten by a Little Penguin on a visit to the National Zoo & Aquarium, Canberra,...

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Description:Tux does not accurately portray any of the 19 species of penguin although he somewhat resembles an Adelie penguin. He is often dressed or portrayed...

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Description:According to Jeff Ayers, Linus Torvalds had a "fixation for flightless, fat waterfowl" and Torvalds claims to have contracted "penguinitis" after...

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Description:Pictures of some of the other contestants can be found here. Tux was created by Larry Ewing using the first publicly released version (0.54) of...