Tux (was: Calling all potential speakers)

[Robert Brockway]

On Wed, 18 Feb 2004, John Vetterli wrote:

> I've heard a few variations of the story (charged, pecked, bitten;
> Australia, Antarctica) that make me wonder if this is just folklore.
> Can anyone point me at a reliable source?

Interesting.  This is the first time I've heard the suggest that this may
be folklaw.  I was involved with Linux at the time.  I remember original
reports of the incident and saw various web pages of Linus' visit to
Canberra[1].  So I had to find some form of proof...

http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=0036

I can't seem to find the web pages I saw all those years ago which is kind
of a shame[2].

[1] It was Canberra not Sydney please excuse my faulty memory.  I even
visited http://www.clug.org.au to see if there was a link but surprisingly
there was not.

[2] No they don't actually show Linus being bitten :)

More trivia: Until a penguin (later called Tux) was chosen it was
seriously looking like a platypus was going to be the mascot for Linux.
This is why various Linux cdrom sets dating from 1994-1995 appear with
platypi on the cover and why HUMBUG[3] (which I've mentioned to a few of
you before) has a platypus for a Mascot.  HUMBUG's is called "Ping" btw :)

[3] http://www.humbug.org.au

Rob

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