In this video you will see ... or hear singing chubby penguin mascot Tux the Linux kernel in a slightly irreverent against Windows.
The Linux Penguin singing - More bloopers are a click away
Definition taken from Wikipedia :
Tux is the official mascot of the Linux kernel. Created by Larry Ewing in 1996, is a plump penguin-looking happy. The idea that the Linux mascot should be a penguin was first to Tove Torvalds, wife of Linus Torvalds, the creator of the Linux kernel, knowing that her husband felt sympathy for these creatures.
Tux
The name, suggested by James Hughes, an acronym, Unix-style, derived from Unix Torvalds. In addition, the name is English assonant tuxedo or tuxedo (which looks like the penguin).
Tux was designed in a competition Linux. Linux on the competition website are pictures of other participants. The winning logo was created by Larry Ewing with GIMP, a graphics package distributed as free software, and delivered according to the following condition:
are authorized for use and / or modify this image provided that you recognized my name lewing @ isc.tamu.edu and the GIMP if someone asks.
According to Jeff Ayers, Linus Torvalds has a "fixation for waterfowl and fats that can not fly." Torvalds also said to have contracted the "penguins" after being gently nibbled by a penguin: "The Penguins keeps you awake at night thinking about penguins and makes you feel a great sense of affection for them." The disease imaginary Torvalds is obviously a joke, but was actually bitten by a little penguin on a visit to Canberra ([2]). Torvalds was looking for something fun and sympathetic to associate with Linux and a penguin a bit 'fat that sits down after a hearty lunch and a pint responded perfectly to the idea. Note the orange feet make it resemble a duck. Tux is
become an icon for Linux and the open source community, so that a Linux User Group has adopted an English penguin to Bristol Zoo. It is much more famous of his great friend, GNU, gnu a shy and peaceful which is the GNU project.
Tux, the shape of the logo PaX
Tux, the shape of the logo appears PaX
often dressed or portrayed differently, depending on the context, for example, when representing the PaX security algorithm, he wears a helmet and holding an ax and a shield, and his eyes are red.
Tux is the star of a video game called Tux Racer for Linux, where the user guides Tux while sliding on his stomach for several icebergs, trying to catch a herring and improve their time. Were developed after other game starring Tux SuperTux among them a clone of Super Mario Bros. Nintendo.
in Linux distributions, Tux greets the user during the boot, multi-processor systems, appear more penguins simultaneously.
TUX is the name of a Web server based on the Linux kernel, capable of serving static pages much faster than traditional servers such as Apache. This software is maintained by Red Hat
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