Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: Linux logo | Date | Tue, 07 May 1996 19:46:21 -0400 | From | Buddha Buck <> |
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> > > 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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