Originally posted by poon cho tang:
wots da name of de penguin? * can't remem
Why is He Called "Tux"?Like pretty much everyone else, I had always assumed that "Tux" is short for "Tuxedo" - Penguins look like they are wearing tuxedo's and that seems like the most reasonable explanation. However, Jacob Poon researched this and found the first known attempt at naming "The Penguin" was found on this message: Let's name the penguin! (was: Re: Linux 2.0 really _is_ released..)
Henning Schmiedehausen (
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10 Jun 1996 16:18:56 +0200
[email protected] (Linus Torvalds) writes:
> Ok, I took the plunge, and Linux-2.0 is out there on the normal
> sites. I even got the energy to write some inane announcement
> about it on cola, so it's too late to chicken out any more.
So it's the 'Electrified Penguin on Cola' release? ;-)
Anyway: Congratulations for this great achievement.
Let's start the 'We name that penguin while Linus is not around' contest.
I vote for 'Homer' (Of course) :-)
Ciao
Henning
(Thanks to Anton Johansson
for creating this masterpiece.)
...presumably because of the earlier comment from Albert Cahalan that Tux looks like Homer ( from "The Simpsons" )...which he does...sortof.
The next reply seems to be the first use of the name "Tux":
Re: Let's name the penguin! (was: Re: Linux 2.0 really _is_ released..)
James Hughes (
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Mon, 10 Jun 1996 20:25:52 -0400
(T)orvolds (U)ni(X) --> TUX!...well, that kindof provides an explanation for the name - although the tuxedo connection has to be the reason behind such a tortured (and technically incorrect) acronym. There were a few other 'in-joke' names, then the thread fizzled out and the name "Tux" has stuck.
