On Wednesday 10 August 2005 11:50 am, jm wrote: > On 8/10/05, Ron Hunter-Duvar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On August 10, 2005 05:57, Inhabitant of Zion wrote: > > > Hi > > > > > > I like it. > > > > > > However I have to admit I don't understand the whole penguin thing > > > myself. it only made sense to me when it was called Mandrake which was > > > after all a penguin :-) > > > > > > Sits back and waits to see if what happens is something akin to war of > > > the worlds... > > > > I could be wrong, but I think the penguin originally came from O'Reilly > > books. It seems whenever they start a new series on a > > language/os/whatever, they assign it a mascot, and use it on the cover of > > every book in the series. I don't know how they pick the animals. > > > > -- > > what i've always read was the penguin was selected by Linus because he > saw one and decided he liked them as the mascot. Linus claims he was bitten by one, and that caused him to have to read a bunch, some of which was books on writting a 32bit kernel for yourself. the O'Reilly books use the mascot of the software they are written for, so GNU has a Gnu, awk has an awk, Linux has a pengy... beOS has a bumble bee... -- registered linux user #167806 (http://counter.li.org/) Webhome "http://ed-tharp.kicks-ass.org";
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