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SubjectRe: Linux logo
DateTue, 07 May 1996 19:46:21 -0400
FromBuddha Buck <>
> 
> 
> On 5 May 1996, Thomas Quinot wrote:
> 
> > Tyson D Sawyer (tyson@rwii.com) écrit :
> > 
> > > > hmm.  i don't think FreeBSD is the "adversary" here, but Windows 95
> > > > certainly is.  how about a penguin smashing in a window or something?
> > > Sounds like a _much_ better idea to me!
> > 
> > Indeed. It is to be noted that the BSD people already have a 'BSD daemon
> > smashing window" logo... Perhaps someone endowed with drawing skills
> > could prepare a "Daemon+Penguin joint attack" ?
> 
> This would be nice. Perhaps one of them could be riding a GNU?

A hoarde of GNU-riding penguins and daemons beseiging Microsoft Keep 
perhaps?  

> 
> Anyone who is running linux or BSD would probably have made a concious 
> choice between them, and we mainly want people to move away from the 
> Micro$oft stable, then particularly to Linux.

I still say that while all these ideas are good, we should first start 
by pushing the penguin as a logo for Linux.

As of right now, the penguin is only associated with Linux by the 
readers of this list.  If we seriously want to use the penguin as a 
logo, then we should start by publicizing that association.  Penguins 
on the warpath against Microsoft makes sense only if you know that the 
penguins represent Linux, and not Soft-ICE or even Bud Ice (both of 
which reputedly ise penguins heavily as a symbol)

Perhaps a pitch could be made to have the Linux Journal feature a 
Penguin waving a Linux 2.0 banner on the cover of the first issue after 
the official release?  A penguin on the www.linux.org homepage?  An 
interesting "birds of a feather" gathering at Usenix (tuxedo and tails, 
maybe?  Maybe not)?  

-- 
     Buddha Buck                      bmbuck@acsu.buffalo.edu
"She was infatuated with their male prostitutes, whose members were
like those of donkeys and whose seed came in floods like that of
stallions."  -- Ezekiel 23:20




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