Tux
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Tux is a penguin character and the official mascot of the Linux kernel.[1] Originally created as an entry to a Linux logo competition, Tux is the most commonly used icon for Linux, although different Linux distributions depict Tux in various styles. In video games featuring the character, female counter parts, named Penny and Gown, accompany him. The character is used in many other Linux programs and as a general symbol of Linux.
Contents
- 1 Origins
- 2 Uses
- 2.1 Video games
- 2.1.1 Female Tux versions in video games
- 2.2 Tux in popular culture
- 2.3 Other uses
- 2.1 Video games
- 3 Tuz
- 4 Media
- 5 See also
- 6 References
- 7 External links
Origins
The story behind Tux, Canberra Zoo.The concept of the Linux mascot being a penguin came from Linus Torvalds, the creator of Linux. Tux was created by Larry Ewing in 1996 after an initial suggestion made by Alan Cox [2] and further refined by Linus Torvalds on the Linux kernel mailing list.[3] Linus took his inspiration from a photograph[4] he found on an FTP site,[5] showing a penguin figurine looking strangely like the Creature Comforts characters made by Nick Park. The first person to call the penguin "Tux" was James Hughes, who said that it stood for "(T)orvalds (U)ni(X)".[6] However, many people observe that Tux is also an abbreviation of tuxedo, the outfit which springs to mind when they see a penguin.
Tux was originally designed as a submission for a Linux logo contest. Three such competitions took place; Tux won none of them. This is why Tux is formally known as the Linux mascot and not the logo.[7] Tux was created[8] by Larry Ewing using the first publicly released[9] version (0.54) of GIMP, a free software graphics package. It was released by him under the following condition:
Permission to use and/or modify this image is granted provided you acknowledge me lewing@isc.tamu.edu and The GIMP if someone asks.[10] A Little Penguin, also known as the Fairy Penguin in Australia and the Blue Penguin in New Zealand, inspired Torvalds to suggest using a penguin as the Linux mascot.According to Jeff Ayers, Linus Torvalds had a "fixation for flightless, fat waterfowl" and Torvalds claims to have contracted "penguinitis" after being gently nibbled by a penguin: "Penguinitis makes you stay awake at nights just thinking about penguins and feeling great love towards them." Torvalds supposed illness is a joke, but he really was bitten by a Little Penguin on a visit to the National Zoo & Aquarium, Canberra, Australia.[11] Torvalds was looking for something fun and sympathetic to associate with Linux, and a slightly fat penguin sitting down after having had a great meal perfectly fit the bill.[12]
In an interview Linus commented on the penguin bite:
Linus: Ive been to Australia several times, these days mostly for Linux.Conf.Au. But my first trip - and the one when I was bitten by a ferocious Fairy Penguin: you really should keep those things locked up! - was in 93 or so, talking about Linux for the Australian Unix Users Group.[13]Uses
In some Linux distributions, Tux greets the user during booting, with multi-processor systems displaying multiple images of Tux, one for each processor-core. Tux appeared as a character during one arc in the webcomic User Friendly. TUX is the name of a Linux-based web server. In 1999, Corel Linux Deluxe included a free Linux Penguin (Tux).[14]
Video games
Tux as the player character protagonist of SuperTux.Tux has taken on a role in the Linux community similar to that which Mario holds in the Nintendo community. He has been featured in open-source look-alikes of other mainstream games, such as Tux Racer, Extreme Tux Racer, Tux Math, SuperTux, Super Tux Kart, and Tux Paint. As such, several computer games, mostly free and open source and/or for Linux, have starred Tux, including:
- Age of Empires III: A Real-time strategy game produced by Microsoft. One of the random names which is assigned to explorers dogs is Tux the Conqueror.[15]
- OpenArena: contains a character titled as "Penguin" who is a man dressed in a costume alike to Tux.
- Pingus: A Lemmings clone in which the lemmings are replaced by penguins in reference to Tux.
- SuperTux: a platform game inspired by Super Mario Bros.
- Tux Kart and SuperTuxKart: Kart racing games similar to the Mario Kart series.
- Tux Paint: A drawing program for young children, most likely inspired by Kid Pix.
- Tux, of Math Command: a free software math tutoring arcade game.
- Tux Typing: a free software educational game designed to teach typing.
- Tux Racer: A game similar to snowboarding video games, in which the player controls Tux sliding downhill on his belly rather than humans snowboarding down a track.
- FreeCiv: A Civilization-like game; the leader name of the Antarctican civilization is "Tux".
- Wormux: A turn-based strategy game inspired by Worms, featuring many free and open source software mascots, including Tux.
- Frozen Bubble: A free software puzzle game, featuring Tux-esque penguins.
- LinCity-NG: A free software strategy game that allows you to build a Tux statue.
Some games that star Tux also include explicitly female penguin characters, allowing the players to play as one of those characters instead of Tux. One such female penguin is Tuxs friend "Gown". Gown is variously depicted as being a pink version of Tux (XTux) or as having a somewhat less fat appearance and wearing items of clothing such as a red and white short skirt and a hair bow (e.g. TuxKart and A Quest for Herring). In SuperTux and SuperTuxKart, there is a different female penguin called "Penny" who is purple and white (SuperTuxKart once had Gown and still has a map called "Gowns Bow"). In the upcoming Tux 2 there is supposed to be a female penguin called "Trixi", and in FreeCiv the female leader name for the Antarctican civilization is "Tuxette".
Tux in popular culture
Tux, in front of the EBU during a seminar on open source for broadcasters- The Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins, the American Hockey League affiliate of the NHLs Pittsburgh Penguins, anamorphic penguin mascots name is Tux. [16]
- In the show Out of Jimmys Head, a wisecracking, comedian penguin who often tells bad puns and jokes is called Tux.[citation needed]
- In the show The Penguins of Madagascar, an episode revealed the penguin Privates name used to be Mr. Tux.
- The "Three Tux Moon" shirt features Tux the penguin associated with Linux [2] and was worn by Wil Wheaton at w00tstock Chicago 2010 [3]
Other uses
Tux on the cover of Australian Womens Weekly cookbook Party Animals- Tux had an uncredited use in the Al Gores Penguin Army video.
- During the Q&A session following his COMDEX Fall 1999 keynote address, Linus Torvalds was asked if he had any idea how many stuffed penguins had been sent to Bill Gates. Torvalds response was another question: "To the nearest thousand?"
- There is a Pet (creature who will fight alongside your character) in the online game known as DragonFable that is a penguin named "Linus". Along with the tagline on the pet, he is shown to be a version of Tux, and a inside joke pointing towards Linux.
- Tux has been adapted to a designer toy called a Gwin and is distributed by October Toys. It is redesigned by different artists and sold in short collectable runs through the October Toys website and other collectable vinyl toy sites. There are also artists who buy a blank Gwin to hand paint and customize as a one-off art piece.
- Several bloggers[17] have noted that Tux bears a striking resemblance with a cake template on the front cover of the Australian Womans Weekly "Party Animals" [4], a cake recipe book published by ACP Magazines. The design is titled "The Penguin Prince" and no credit is given. ACP later acknowledged the similarity and added they lost track of the original template designer[18].
- Its possible to make Tux talk using the cowsay command in Unix by adding the option -f tux to it. In the following example the text in the cowsay is piped from the fortune command:
- A monument to Tux is erected in Tyumen (Russia), by the local Linux Users Community.[19]
Tuz
Tuz, the Tasmanian devilTuz was the mascot of the 2009 linux.conf.au conference. It has been chosen by Linus Torvalds as the logo for version 2.6.29 of the Linux kernel [20] to support the effort to save the Tasmanian devil species from extinction[21] due to the Devil facial tumour disease.
The image was designed by Andrew McGown and recreated as an Inkscape SVG[22] by Josh Bush[23], and released under Creative Commons license CC-BY-SA[24].
Media
Tux variants Free software portal- The BSD Daemon, the mascot of the various Berkeley Software Distribution releases
- Wilber, the mascot of The GIMP
References
- http://thinkerspodium.wordpress.com/2007/07/30/the-australian-womens-weekly-and-the-violation-of-tux-the-penguin/
- http://lanabrindley.blogspot.com/2008/03/my-definition-of-word-soon.html
This article incorporates material from the Citizendium article "Tux", which is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License but not under the GFDL.
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Tux- Linux 2.0 Penguins (Larry Ewing)
- A complete history of Tux
- Wired News story on Tux
- The Gospel of Tux
- The LWN Penguin Gallery
- GPLd sewing patterns for Tux
- Roblimos video posting explaining the use of Tux in the DCI Group video
- How to make a paper tux penguin
- Tux Droid : A real open source Tux
- Tux Case : Tux plastic case for an embedded Linux board
- Edible Tux : Tux on a birthday cake
- TuxMathScrabble and TuxWordSmith Education Games
- The Free Penguin Project - GPLd machine embroidery design files for Tux.
- PrettyPets - Online tamagotchi. You can select Tux as your pet.
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