The Linux Kernel Saves Animals, Gets New Logo

[phoronix]

Phoronix: The Linux Kernel Saves Animals, Gets New Logo

Tux, the Linux penguin mascot, will be taking a break during the Linux 2.6.29 kernel cycle. Committed to the Linus's kernel tree last night is a new temporary logo known as Tuz...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=NzE1MA

[bulletxt]

someone save the Tasmanian Devil!

[aaaantoine]

The fake beak is a nice touch. :)

[gsacks]

I just found my new desktop background.

[cb88]

wow your late on this news... it was decided all the way back at linuxconf.au

also in the deal bdale garbee of debian got a shave http://ostatic.com/blog/bdale-garbee-has-close-shave-at-linux-conf-au

the mascot was part of the bargain and was chiped in by Linus himself

[sundown]

What about the Amur leopard? Or we should leave that honor to Apple?

[jeffro-tull]

wow your late on this news... it was decided all the way back at linuxconf.au....

It's because Ubuntu 9.04 isn't shipping with this kernel. So, any extraneous information about this particular kernel release wasn't picked up by them.

[Michael]

wow your late on this news... it was decided all the way back at linuxconf.au

I knew about it beforehand, but it was finally committed this week, which is what the news item was about.

[NeoBrain]

lol I'd so much like something like this to be the standart linux mascot, it looks so modern...

[Strider]

This mascot is so poorly drawn that it gives a bad image to Linux and Tazmanian Devils.
Poor linux, poor devils, why don't any professionnal graphist care about them :(

[sundown]

Talking about devils, people would associate it to BSD :)

[BrowneR]

ye i admire the cause and all but surely there are better ways to "raise awareness". that phrase always seems like a cop out to me.

[Dragonlord]

Hehe... nice one... show your claws to WinDumb ;)

[tulcod]

i think i'm gonna skip 2.6.29

[kraftman]

This mascot is so poorly drawn that it gives a bad image to Linux and Tazmanian Devils.
Poor linux, poor devils, why don't any professionnal graphist care about them :(

Yeah, I hate this mascot. Tux looks far better.

[d2kx]

http://www.ixsoft.de/Web_store/Images/256/OFTUXFAMFA.jpg

And no one else :)

[grantek]

I like it :)

for reference:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tasmanian_Devil

[GreatWalrus]

Wow, that's very nice of Linus and the people at Linux.Conf.Au.

[some-guy]

I applied the patch to my 2.6.27 kernel...
Tuz is awesome :)