Linux penguin logo.

[sudoer541]

I read couple of months ago that the Linux penguin logo will change to a rat logo.
Is this true? why do they want to change it? How will this benefit the users?
More info please.

[Tibuda]

They have changed it for the Tasmanian Devil only for the 2.6.29 release, because it is about to be extinct. It is Tux penguin again.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tux#Tuz

[earthpigg]

i love Tux.

there needs to be a LiveCD video game distribution (like live.linux-gamers (http://live.linux-gamers.net/) distro) that features every game with Tux in it.

[MasterNetra]

They have changed it for the Tasmanian Devil only for the 2.6.29 release, because it is about to be extinct. It is Tux penguin again.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tux#Tuz

Oh well creatures become extinct, happens all the time in nature.

[dragos240]

Haha a rat :p

[Vostrocity]

EDIT: Post deleted. I'd get yelled at for posting too big of an image.

[sudoer541]

I just saw the wikipedia page posted above
tbh I like the current Linux logo with the penguin.

[hoppipolla]

They have changed it for the Tasmanian Devil only for the 2.6.29 release, because it is about to be extinct. It is Tux penguin again.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tux#Tuz

I just read about it on Wikipedia and stuff, don't worry they're not going to become extinct, they are just endangered but I think they'll pull through :)

This one certainly isn't going down without a fight:

http://bfarber.com/screens/%5B2452%5DTazmanianDevil.JPG

[joey-elijah]

Oh well creatures become extinct, happens all the time in nature.

If only the ignorant became extinct, too...

[magmon]

If only the ignorant became extinct, too...

Define ignorance. Name one species of animal more than a few thousand years old that has survived. His post is accurate.

[hoppipolla]

Define ignorance. Name one species of animal more than a few thousand years old that has survived. His post is accurate.

I dunno man, but I think sometimes it's nice to save an animal just because you like it, or want to do a good thing, or because you were the one that put it in that situation in the first place O.O you know?

[hoppipolla]

I read couple of months ago that the Linux penguin logo will change to a rat logo.
Is this true? why do they want to change it? How will this benefit the users?
More info please.

I think tux is epic though, he should never change permanently :)

[sudoer541]

stay on topic guys!

[MasterNetra]

Define ignorance. Name one species of animal more than a few thousand years old that has survived. His post is accurate.

Or more accurately name one millennia that a species didn't go extinct, considering there are number who have survived for a lot longer. Alligators/Crocodiles for one, And their is some kinda of creature (which on surface could be mistaken for a rock in the water) that has been around sense even before plants first colonized land, haven't heard of anything else that old. Though their is the Coelacanth, which goes back pretty far and apparently hasn't changed over time. (DNA structure must be right where it needs to be for it I guess, no improvement if none is needed. ^.^ But its case is a rarity.) Otherwise though extinction is relatively common.

[hoppipolla]

stay on topic guys!

haha I know I spotted that one lol, sorry I helped this go so far down the endangered species debate again xD

[overdrank]

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