Il Tuesday 24 July 2001 10:10, pur dolorante per l' artrite alle dita,
scrivesti...
> Disquisendo con un collega a proposito del solito scontro "meglio Windows o
> meglio Linux", alla fine della diatriba un dubbio e' sorto: Come e' nata
> l'idea di usare un pinguino come "logo" per linux?
>
> Grazie
>
> Ciao
> Guido
>
non mi ricordo dove l' ho preso, ma una ricerca con google ti dira' di sicuro
l' url originale.... piu' che il perche' del pinguino ( prime 2 righe :)
spiega come e' fatto il pinguino
Ivan
Why A Penguin?
Linus Torvalds (the creator of Linux) likes penguins; here is his original
idea for a penguin as a Linux mascot/logo:
Now, when you think about penguins, first take a deep calming breath, and
then think "cuddly". Take another breath, and think "cute". Go back to
"cuddly" for a while (and go on breathing), then think "contented".
With me so far? Good...
Now, with penguins, (cuddly such), "contented" means it has either just
gotten laid, or it's stuffed on herring. Take it from me, I'm an expert on
penguins, those are really the only two options.
Now, working on that angle, we don't really want to be associated with a
randy penguin (well, we do, but it's not politic, so we won't), so we should
be looking at the "stuffed to its brim with herring" angle here.
So when you think "penguin", you should be imagining a slighly overweight
penguin (*), sitting down after having gorged itself, and having just burped.
It's sitting there with a beatific smile -- the world is a good place to be
when you have just eaten a few gallons of raw fish and you can feel another
"burp" coming.
(*) Not FAT, but you should be able to see that it's sitting down because
it's really too stuffed to stand up. Think "bean bag" here.
Now, if you have problems associating yourself with something that gets off
by eating raw fish, think "chocolate" or something, but you get the idea.
Ok, so we should be thinking of a lovable, cuddly, stuffed penguin sitting
down after having gorged itself on herring. Still with me?
NOW comes the hard part. With this image firmly etched on your eyeballs, you
then sketch a stylizied version of it. Not a lot of detail -- just a black
brush-type outline (you know the effect you get with a brush where the
thickness of the line varies). THAT requires talent. Give people the outline,
and they should say [sickly sweet voice, babytalk almost] "Ooh, what a cuddly
penguin, I bet he is just stuffed with herring", and small children will jump
up and down and scream "mommy mommy, can I have one too?".
Then we can do a larger version with some more detail (maybe leaning against
a globe of the world, but I don't think we really want to give any "macho
penguin" image here about Atlas or anything). That more detailed version can
spank billy-boy to tears for all I care, or play ice-hockey with the FreeBSD
demon. But the simple, single penguin would be the logo, and the others would
just be that cuddly penguin being used as an actor in some tableau.
Linus Torvalds
--
Q: What do you call the money you pay to the government when
you ride into the country on the back of an elephant?
A: A howdah duty.
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