![]() Now, working on that angle, we don't really want to be associated with a randy penguin (well, we do, but it's not politic, so we won't), so we should be looking at the "stuffed to its brim with herring" angle here. Take it from me, I'm an expert on penguins, those are really the only two options. Now, with penguins, (cuddly such), "contented" means it has either just gotten laid, or it's stuffed on herring. Go back to "cuddly" for a while (and go on breathing), then think "contented". ![]() Now, when you think about penguins, first take a deep calming breath, and then think "cuddly". Not a good, positive logo, in that respect. Anyway, this one looks like the poor penguin is not really strong enough to hold up the world, and it's going to get squashed. Somebody had a logo competition announcement, maybe people can send their ideas to a web-site. However, this is why he is referred to as Linux’s mascot, rather than logo.)Īfter several suggestions, including penguins in different poses, with one attempting to hold up the world, Torvalds stepped in. (Actually, Tux apparently wasn’t the winner, but has been almost universally adopted regardless. Tux was ‘born’ in 1996, the result of a competition to find an appropriate logo for Linux. “Linux” was adopted after Ari Lemmke, Torvalds’ coworker at the Helsinki University of Technology (HUT) named the project “Linux” when uploading the files to the FTP server () in September 1991. He considered the name “Linux”, but according to his book, Just for Fun, dismissed it as too egotistical. Torvalds had wanted to call his kernal “Freax”, (think “free”, “freak”, and “x” (for Unix)). It is NOT portable (uses 386 task switching etc), and it probably never will support anything other than AT-harddisks, as that's all I have :-(. Yes - it's free of any minix code, and it has a multi-threaded fs. Any suggestions are welcome, but I won't promise I'll implement them :-) Linus PS. This implies that I'll get something practical within a few months, and I'd like to know what features most people would want. I've currently ported bash(1.08) and gcc(1.40), and things seem to work. I'd like any feedback on things people like/dislike in minix, as my OS resembles it somewhat (same physical layout of the file-system (due to practical reasons) among other things). This has been brewing since april, and is starting to get ready. Hello everybody out there using minix - I'm doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be big and professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones. On 25 August 1991, Torvalds (at age 21) made an announcement in a Usenet posting to the newsgroup “comp.os.minix.”: The GNU C Compiler continues to be the main choice for compiling Linux today, although the code can be built with other compilers. The Linux kernel was created by Torvalds in 1991, specifically for the hardware he was using and independent of an operating system, and developed on MINIX using the GNU C compiler. After asking the newsgroup comp.os.minix if there was anything they'd like to see most in MINIX, Torvalds announced that he was developing his own Unix-based operating system that would allow for improvements based on users’ comments and suggestions. There’s a number of stories as to the reason that Finnish-American software engineer, Torvalds felt the need to create the Linux kernel in the place, but all are based on frustrations with MINIX. Personally I prefer a pizza analogy (the kernel is the pizza dough, and the operating system is the finished pizza) but the point is the same - without a kernel, an operating system doesn't exist without programs, a kernel is useless. likens the kernel to the spaghetti in Spaghetti Bolognese, where the Spaghetti Bolognese is the operating system. The focal point of any operating system is its ‘kernel’. It aims towards POSIX and Single UNIX Specification compliance.” So what is Linux ? (If you’re not sure how to pronounce it, you can hear the master here.)Īccording to the Linux Kernal Archives, “Linux is a clone of the operating system Unix, written from scratch by Linus Torvalds with assistance from a loosely-knit team of hackers across the Net. Granted, this is more to do with the fact that he’s a cute little penguin than anything else, but, since Linux turns 25 this month, I decided it was a good opportunity to look back at where and how it started, how far it’s come… and why a penguin? Tech mascots haven’t always been popular (think Microsoft’s Clippy), but I confess I have a soft spot for Tux – Linux’s mascot. 25 th August 1991 – “I'm doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be big…)”
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