How Tux the Penguin Ruined It for Linux

Re:How Tux the Penguin Ruined It for Linux by Bino on Tuesday August 23, 2016 @05:32AM (#12342434)

I completely disagree. Tux is the success of mascots. With less successful followers such as darwin, freebsd and openbsd.

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Re:How Tux the Penguin Ruined It for Linux by dpina on Tuesday August 23, 2016 @05:51AM (#12342498)

After finishing the article I still don't understand what were the reasons to scorn Tux. Maybe OP should have given an example of a good mascot for the readers to get the point.

I'm still quite happy with Tux though, it's a sober mascot that's very simple/minimal, and is easily recognizable.

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Re:How Tux the Penguin Ruined It for Linux by izietto on Tuesday August 23, 2016 @05:38AM (#12342450)

Yes. Tux was one of the reasons I got in touch with Linux when I was young.

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Re:How Tux the Penguin Ruined It for Linux by dalke on Tuesday August 23, 2016 @11:53AM (#12344706)

On the topic of mascots, the FreeBSD and Darwin logos follow the BSD Daemon, nicknamed Beastie, from 1984, more than they follow Tux.

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Re:How Tux the Penguin Ruined It for Linux by Bino on Tuesday August 23, 2016 @04:23PM (#12347250)

Nice trivia

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