On Mon, 21 Jan 2002, Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
> > Red Hat have their shadow man, SuSE have their "Geeko" gecko, Mozilla
> > have their lizard,
>
> Netscape had this lizard before mozilla (the project) was even formed.
Netscape called the product Mozilla long before they called the company
Netscape. what's your point? it used to be a cute green lizard, now it's
a scary red Godzilla. (Gojira if you stick to the Japanese origin)
> > FSF have their GNU,
>
> Formed a couple of years before linux.
again, SO? animal logos in general are reviewd here, not necesarily for
linux related projects (and I tend to see linux as a GNU-related project
rather than vice-versa)
> > , Debian have an unidentified swirl.
> > Mandrake's logo sucks ("Look mom! I got root!").
>
> Mandrake's logo was originally a magician penguin. They later removed the
> penguin, and left only the hat and the star.
Mandrake is a name of a magician is some mythologies, its' also
(unintentionally?) the name of a poisonous plant, the name of which in
Hebrew I forgot, named after a mythical deadly plant. are Mandrake
hoping to kill the competition or poison their users? :-)
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The artist formerly known as
Ira Abramov
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