Tux (was: Calling all potential speakers)

[Taavi Burns]

On Wed, Feb 18, 2004 at 06:30:29PM -0500, Robert Brockway wrote:
> 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 :)

That is most interesting, consideringthe mascot for Darwin:
http://www.hexley.com/

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