Why is the Linux icon a penguin?

Penguins are the iconic animals of Antarctica. According to international conventions, Antarctica is owned by all mankind and does not belong to any country in the world. Today, no country has the right to include Antarctica in its territory. Linux chose the penguin pattern as its logo, which also means that open source Linux is owned by all mankind, and no company has the right to privately own it.

There are many stories behind Penguin.

In 1994, Ms. Iris established contact with Mr. Linus, the father of Linux, through the Internet. So she began to work on marketing Linux. The software sold by Pacific HiTech has also expanded to FreeBSD, OS/2, Macintosh and various Linux versions including Redhat, Slackware, Debian, etc. Ms. Iris herself has also traveled more vigorously to Brazil and Germany to promote Linux. "We pressed the first Redhat CD." Many years later, Ms. Iris was still proud when she mentioned this matter.

Speaking of this, Ms. Iris told us with great interest the origin of the Linux symbol-penguin.

In order to facilitate sales activities, Ms. Iris designed an inverted triangle corporate logo for Linux. However, this logo was firmly opposed by Linus's girlfriend at the time. The reason was that the logo of European gay organizations also had such a set of inverted triangles. After the joke, they began to seriously discuss the Linux logo. In the end, because Linus was bitten by a penguin when he was a child and has always been afraid of penguins, they finally chose the Linux logo as a penguin.

Its original creator, American artist Larry Ewing, said that everyone is welcome to use and modify the image of this little penguin in an evening dress as he wishes. The baby penguin also has a striking name: TUX! It is said that the name TUX (TUX means semi-formal evening dress worn by men) is not because the black and white colors on the penguin look like it is wearing an evening dress, but because it came from the suggestion of a man named James Hughes. is the abbreviation of (T)orvalds (U)ni(X), just like Linux is the abbreviation of Linus's minix.

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