Linux logo and symbol, meaning, history, PNG
- Download PNG Linux Logo PNG Unix-like computer operating system, Linux dates its history to 1991, when Linus Torvalds launched the Linux kernel, which became the base of the operating system.
- The company’s official mascot is a stylized penguin called Tux.
- Meaning and history If you want a customized Tux, you may purchase a blank toy and hand paint it to your taste.
- There were quite a few suggestions, some of them being actually parodies of other IT logos.
- Very soon Linus Torvalds, the creator of the defining component of Linux, mentioned that he liked penguins, in general.
- Also, he mentioned that he was bitten by a penguin during his stay in Australia.
- Interestingly enough, the company held three competitions for a Linux logo, but the one created by Larry Ewing won none of them.
- However, it was this emblem that became the company’s mascot.
- The new animal was drawn in a circular shape and had its true enlarged and crossed.
- 2008 – Today The redesign of 2008 refined the image from 2005, adding some more realistic shape to the circular Penguin body and some glance at its texture.
- The emblem from 2007, which is still used by Linux today, is something in between the original emblem from the 1990s and the caricature one from 2005.
- Tux has rather big round eyes and a friendly “smile”.
- The wordmark is given in a customized serif font.
- There is a word for a tattoo depicting the Linux penguin (“Tuxtoo”) Color The emblem uses a combination of yellow, black, and white.
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