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Tux is the official Mascotte of Linux. Its use is free and it is found in very many commercial logo S and amateurs related to Linux.

History

The drawing of the character was selected at the conclusion of a contest organized in 1996 of which gaining it was Larry Ewing. It used The GIMP, the software of image processing headlight on Linux. It is about a fictitious character representing very roughly a Manchot Pygmy whose idea was suggested by Alan Cox then refined by Linus Torvalds, the creator of the Noyau Linux.

Linus took as a starting point a photograph which it found on a site ftp, showing a figurine of penguin resembling curiously to the characters of the Creature Comforts of Nick Park.

The name was suggested by James Hughes. It is about the Apocope of the American term tuxedo meaning “smoking”. James Hugues, in email sent the June 10th 1996, proposed a made up Retro-acronym starting from the words T orvalds and ''''' U ''' nor ''' X '''''.

Some declared first of all that this mascot was inappropriate because hardly evoked the power. Linus Torvalds answered that null person charged by a penguin Pygmy, which runs quickly and has a very hard Bec, would not think that. Contradictions died out.

Aspect

Many wrongly thinks that the mascot of Linux is a Pingouin, in particular because in English, the word penguin says penguin , whereas what one indicates in French as a Pingouin (bird of the family of the Alcidé S) calls in English a auk . In the language running, the word " pingouin" is often used besides wrongly to indicate certain penguins.

Tux precisely does not represent any of the 19 species of penguins, although it resembles a little a Manchot Adelie.

Many artists worked out alternatives. It results from it from many burlesques creations.

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