Why penguin?

2000-10-04 Thread Shimon C. Constante
Can anybody tell me why Linux's symbol is a penguin? begin:vcard n:Constante;Shimon Cocay tel;fax:(1)(212) 208-2621 tel;home:ICQ: 12101222 tel;work:(972)(03) 753-4423 x-mozilla-html:TRUE org:Aduva;Intelligence adr:;; version:2.1 email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] title:Intelligence Team

RE: Why penguin?

2000-10-04 Thread Mevorach, Assaf
All the story http://www.linux.org/info/penguin.html -Original Message- From: Shimon C. Constante [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, October 04, 2000 9:12 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Why penguin? Can anybody tell me why Linux's symbol is a penguin? why a Penguin -.url

Re: Why penguin?

2000-10-04 Thread Izar Tarandach
Dde. Ask us first. We are supposed to be experts, remember ? "Shimon C. Constante" wrote: Can anybody tell me why Linux's symbol is a penguin? -- Aduva/LinuxQA Inc. Izar Tarandach, Daemon Exorcist, Research Director "The box said, Windows 95

Re: Why penguin?

2000-10-04 Thread Izar Tarandach
Sorry for the switchology mistake. This was supposed to be a personal message. Memo to self: reply != reply-to-all. --izar Izar Tarandach wrote: Dde. Ask us first. We are supposed to be experts, remember ? "Shimon C. Constante" wrote: Can anybody tell me why Linux's symbol is

Re: Why penguin?

2000-10-04 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Ask me next time :) http://www.linux.org/info/penguin.html Hetz "Shimon C. Constante" wrote: Can anybody tell me why Linux's symbol is a penguin? = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in

RE: Why penguin?

2000-10-04 Thread Mevorach, Assaf
://www.viererbande.net/Tim/wpeng.html need more? -Original Message- From: Nadav Har'El [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, October 04, 2000 10:05 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Why penguin? On Tue, Oct 03, 2000, Mevorach, Assaf wrote about "RE: Why penguin?": All the s

Re: Why penguin?

2000-10-04 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Wed, Oct 04, 2000, Mevorach, Assaf wrote about "RE: Why penguin?": sorry to disappoint you but that's the explanation you can see it all over: http://gate.crashing.org/penguin.html http://www.penguinpower.com/PenguinPower/whyapenguin http://www.stones.demon.co.uk/why-penguin.

RE: Why penguin?

2000-10-04 Thread Chen Shapira
Most of the pages you now quote have the same text, except http://www.penguinpower.com/PenguinPower/whyapenguin Which has a more meaningful explanation. According to this explanation, when Linus wanted a mascot for Linux (if I remember correctly, for Linux 2.0 - the 1.* kernels had a

Re: Why penguin?

2000-10-04 Thread Shachar Shemesh
ok, so why Tux? Chen Shapira wrote: Most of the pages you now quote have the same text, except http://www.penguinpower.com/PenguinPower/whyapenguin Which has a more meaningful explanation. According to this explanation, when Linus wanted a mascot for Linux (if I remember correctly,

Re: Why penguin?

2000-10-04 Thread Herouth Maoz
Shachar Shemesh wrote: ok, so why Tux? Short for "Tuxedo" which is what penguins wear. Herouth = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo