 So I'm a pretty curious guy and one of the things that I've wondered for quite a while is Why does Linux use a penguin for their mascot? I thought that maybe there was this really awesome philosophy behind why they chose a penguin But I never actually been curious enough to you know, actually look it up until today so what I thought I'd do today is talk about why Linux uses the penguin as their mascot and the story is both hilarious and also Kind of boring so we're gonna talk about the hilarious one after the boring one because that's the way YouTube works You got to keep people entertained man, but that's just you know, we've passed that so the the boring and Most likely the realistic reason why the penguin is the mascot for Linux is because the Linux mailing group put together a contest for a logo and One of the people who took part in that contest knew that Linus Torvalds had an obsession with with penguins and Therefore he submitted a penguin to the contest and Linus Torvalds selected that logo as the mascot That's the reason why they use it a penguin as the mascot now The other story that kind of goes along with that is related to Linus Torvalds obsession with penguins so there's this story that he was in Australia one time at the national zoo and Apparently he got bit by penguins and he came down with a with a disease called penguinitis Which he says made him stay up at night thinking about penguins and realizing that he had a great love for them Now we're all pretty sure that he never actually got bitten by a penguin But that's what he has said multiple times in many different quotes And whether or not he's just you know being consistent with his joking or he actually got bit by penguin I don't know, but there's a whole Lore around this penguin now that has somehow chased Linus Torvalds through the streets of a zoo in Australia and then attacked him There's a ton of different stuff online if you were interested enough to look into it Where people are talking about this penguin that apparently attacked Linus Torvalds and then inspired him to make Linux now The actual history behind the logo itself is kind of interesting if you're you know history buffs So it was originated in 1996 it was put into the contest by a guy named Alan Cox who was the maintainer for the Version 2.2 of the Linux kernel and then the actual mascot itself was Designed by a man named Larry Ewing in the GIMP program So it was designed in free software, which is awesome And then the name tux was first coined by a guy named James Hughes who Has said that it stands for Torvalds Unix and also obviously correlates with a penguin Wearing a tuxedo like you know, it looks like a tuxedo so that is the history of the tux logo the Weird thing is if you I will paste it up here that the original version of the logo is what appears to be a figurine of a penguin that is grinding his teeth and Is either holding a fish or a potato has like snorkel goggles on and has pink feet It's a really weird weird inspiration for the logo But that was the inspiration for the logo like I said, I will put it up here So you can actually see and then you can kind of see Where the transition between that and what tux has become Apparently the reason why Linus Torvalds chose the penguin in the first place wasn't only because of his story of being bit by penguin Well, but because he was looking for something fun to associate with Linux and he felt that a sight slightly fat sitting down Penguin that was sitting down after having a great meal was a perfect fit for the bill The point is is that that was kind of the reason why he chose tux to you know the Penguin to begin with so the interesting thing about all this stuff is that the stories that were kind of created because of Linus Torvalds jokes about being Bent by a penguin have just kind of spread across the internet over the last 30 years and some of them are Utterly utterly hilarious. So I highly recommend doing a Google search for that kind of stuff And you'll probably find some really entertaining stories. So Just a quick video for today I had no time to do anything else So I decided to do this quick video Even though it didn't turn out to be so quick because I had to do it a second time But whatever if you have comments about this you can leave those in the comment section below if you would like more in a Linux related content you can hit that big red subscribe button. We're Fastly approaching 12,000 subscribers, which is just nuts because it was like just at 10,000 like a month ago Which is like I said, absolutely crazy. 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