Tux The Penguin

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Who is Tux?

Tux is the official Kali Linux [www.kali.org] Mascot, created in 1996 by Larry Ewing [eng.wikipedia.org]

Tux is a plump penguin that looks satisified and sated.

It is sometimes claimed that the name derives from T orvalds U ni X , a name suggested by James Hughes, instead of the explanation that penguins appear to wear a tuxedo .

The Tux was created for a logo competition for Linux. The winning logo was created by Larry Ewing using GIMP [www.gimp.org] and was released by him.

According to Jeff Ayers , Linus Torvalds had a " fixation on fat seabirds that lack the ability to fly!" and Torvalds claims he contracted a "penguinite" after being gently nibbled by a penguin: "Penguinitie makes us spend nights up just thinking about penguins and feeling a great love for them." Torvalds' alleged illness is, of course, a joke, but he was actually bitten by a small penguin on a visit to Canberra .

Tux has become an icon for the Linux community and Open Source , with a group of British linux users adopting a penguin at the Zoo of Bristol . He is much more famous than his great friend, GNU, a peaceful and shy wildebeest who represents the GNU Project.7

He is often dressed or portrayed in different ways, depending on the context; for example, when representing the
PaX security algorithm [pax.grsecurity.net] , he wears a helmet and wears an ax and a shield , and his eyes are red.

Tux is the star of a game for Linux called Tux Racer , in which the player guides Tux down a variety of icy mounds in his belly, trying to catch herring and beat the time limit. Tux is also a character in the webcomics , User Friendly .

Tux also appears in the texts of Éder Luiz being a super hero in the texts Tux and the fedora team. It is also the name of the Linux- based web server , which is able to serve static web pages much faster than traditional servers , such as the Apache HTTP server , software maintained by Red Hat . Still, GNU / Linux is an operating system based on GNU with Linux Kernel .

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[Bloo Alien]

Wikipedia says "Tux is a penguin character and the official brand character of the Linux kernel."

Not specific to Kali Linux at all, but rather the Linux kernel itself (which is used by all Linux-based distributions (including Kali).

Just as an aside note; Kali is probably not the best choice of Linux distro for a general desktop or gaming type usage. It's really intended for penetration testing ("ethical hacking") and not well suited as a "daily driver".

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Originally posted by Bloo Alien:

Wikipedia says "Tux is a penguin character and the official brand character of the Linux kernel."

Not specific to Kali Linux at all, but rather the Linux kernel itself (which is used by all Linux-based distributions (including Kali).

Just as an aside note; Kali is probably not the best choice of Linux distro for a general desktop or gaming type usage. It's really intended for penetration testing ("ethical hacking") and not well suited as a "daily driver".

Thanks for the extra info.

[Lynsk]

Bring it back, birds are kewl.

[Marlock]

after being gently nibbled by a penguin

I almost fell off the chair laughing with this bit!

As much as they are cute (like undeniably, objectively, scientifically-measurably cute ), penguins have a surprisingly terrible temper and a dangerously sharp beak (enough for piercing through the side of a fish, scales and all).

After seeing first-hand a couple colonies, i can imagine how that gentle nibbling looked like. Guaranteed to cause an impression... ouch!

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Originally posted by Dѻѻm:

Originally posted by TuX 🌦:

Tux is the star of a game for Linux called Tux Racer , in which the player guides Tux down a variety of icy mounds in his belly, trying to catch herring and beat the time limit.

Don't forget SuperTux.[en.wikipedia.org]

yeah, sorr

[GuRu Asaki]

Actually, Tux is located on STEAM Library Page under Search.
It is Still located & found on STEAM. If anyone was curious?

I'm not sure why the Posting this Thread, but good story.

[lopes]

Originally posted by Dѻѻm:

:signix: <--- as steam emoticon

:EmperorPenguin::pingu::pingu::pingu::pingu::pingu::pingu::pingu::pingu::pingu::EmperorPenguin:
:pingu::SBpenguin::SBpenguin::signix::signix::SBpenguin::signix::signix::SBpenguin::SBpenguin::pingu:
:pingu::SBpenguin::signix::signix::signix::signix::signix::signix::signix::SBpenguin::pingu:
:pingu::SBpenguin::signix::signix::signix::signix::signix::signix::signix::SBpenguin::pingu:
:pingu::SBpenguin::SBpenguin::signix::signix::signix::signix::signix::SBpenguin::SBpenguin::pingu:
:pingu::SBpenguin::SBpenguin::SBpenguin::signix::signix::signix::SBpenguin::SBpenguin::SBpenguin::pingu:
:pingu::SBpenguin::SBpenguin::SBpenguin::SBpenguin::signix::SBpenguin::SBpenguin::SBpenguin::SBpenguin::pingu:
:EmperorPenguin::pingu::pingu::pingu::pingu::pingu::pingu::pingu::pingu::pingu::EmperorPenguin:

(Feel free to reuse and modify that; I got the template from steam comments, anyway. Got to own the emoticons for it to work, though.)

Thx

[Zyro]

Nice one!
(I don't like Steam's new happy face too much...)

[class101 [OLED deck]]

[Marlock]

11:57:01 - user sees huge meta-emoji penguin

11:57:02 - user leaves thread...

11:57:03 - ...to buy penguin emojis

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Originally posted by Bloo Alien:

I miss our little Tux icon in Steam.

Sad they replaced him with a Steam logo. :(

Same. That Tux logo was a lovely little 'so there' to all of the people on the old Steam forums who said a Linux port would be impossible, for various nonsensical and obviously wrong reasons. It was like winning 100 debates at once every time I saw it on a store page. A tiny little flag of victory, bravely waving in the faces of all of the people who were too terrified of viruses to google anything. I will never stop relishing that victory. Not when it was always 100 of them to every 1 of us.

[lopes]

Originally posted by TheThunderGuyS:

I'm not sure if this is satire, but if it isn't this post is so wrong on so many levels.

Tell me, if this Is wrong what is right?