A History of Linux

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4 and it continues to be updated every day. The beanbag of joy we now know as TUX was created and sat representing Linux in his own unique way. The penguin was to be sitting because he felt that had it just gorged itself the penguin wouldn’t want to be standing, it would want to sit down and relax. This was decided because it is his favorite animal. He also felt that it should look like it is slightly overweight so that it looks as if it had just gorged itself on herring. He felt that the penguin should look very content, not angry or ferocious, or even overly happy, just content. It was decided by Linus Torvalds that the mascot would be a penguin. Linus went through each of these and did not see anything that represented the operating system well. As of January 2001 Linux had reached version 2. After many letters from Linus to numerous people the logo was designed to his specifications. During the contest many people entered their versions of what it should look like.

A contest was held to create the Linux logo.

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