[advocacy-discuss] Logo/Mascot for OpenSolaris

[Keith Bierman]

On Jun 22, 2007, at 5:33 PM, Darren.Reed at Sun.COM wrote:

>
> I believe there's some amount of urban legend to this
> and the truth of it is more that Linux adopted the Pengiun
> after Linus Torvalds visited Australia and went to see the
> Fairy Pengiuns at Philip Island (Victoria, Australia.)
>

Sorry, I didn't mean that Linux chose the Penguin because of the  
Daemon. Merely that Linus did not invent the notion of an OS having a  
cute mascot.

I have no idea what motivated his choice. I don't doubt your story, I  
simply never paid attention to Penguin origin stories ;>

Prior to BSD, I can't think of a cute OS mascot (IBM's various OS's,  
Univac's, Multics, RT-11, VMS, etc.). So I think that the credit for  
clever mascot "branding" of an OS goes to the team at Cal.

MHO of course.
>

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