The first person to call the penguin "Tux" was James Hughes, who said that it stood for "(T)orvalds (U)ni(X)". Since Tux won none of the three competitions that were held Tux is formally known as the Linux brand character and not the logo. Permission to use and/or modify this image is granted provided you acknowledge me and The GIMP if someone asks. It was released by him under the following condition:
#SUPERTUX 2 FORK SOFTWARE#
The final and original design was a submission for a Linux logo contest by Larry Ewing using the first publicly released version (0.54) of GIMP, a free software graphics package. Torvalds was looking for something fun and sympathetic to associate with Linux, and he felt that a slightly fat penguin sitting down after having eaten a great meal perfectly fit the bill. Linus Torvalds' "favourite penguin picture", used as inspiration for Tux In 1996 after an initial design suggestion made by Alan Cox, use of an image Torvalds found on an FTP site, showing a penguin figurine depicted in a similar style to the Creature Comforts characters created by Nick Park, the concept for Tux was further refined by Torvalds on the Linux kernel mailing list. The story, according to Linus, is that while Tove may in fact have vaguely mentioned penguins at some early stage, it was in a conversation with two high-ranking Linux types that the icy creatures were first seriously considered as the operating system’s official mascot. In the book, Linus says he doesn’t remember how Tux became the mascot, but believes the zoo story, which, according to his wife, Tove Torvalds, is probably right. Īpart from this, in the book Just for Fun: The Story of an Accidental Revolutionary, there is an excerpt dedicated to how Tux became the mascot of the Linux OS. But my first trip-and the one when I was bitten by a ferocious fairy penguin: you really should keep those things locked up!-was in 93 or so, talking about Linux for the Australian Unix Users Group.Īt Canberra zoo a sign said in 2009 that staff believed the "original Tux" was still resident in the penguin enclosure. I've been to Australia several times, these days mostly for.
In an interview Linus commented on the penguin bite: According to Jeff Ayers, Linus Torvalds had a "fixation for flightless, fat waterfowl" and Torvalds claims to have contracted "penguinitis" after being nibbled by a little penguin on a visit to the National Zoo & Aquarium, Canberra, Australia, joking that the disease "makes you stay awake at nights just thinking about penguins and feeling great love towards them". The concept of the Linux brand character being a penguin came from Linus Torvalds, the creator of Linux. 2.1.1 Female Tux versions in video games.
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