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Penguins are the symbol animals of Antarctica. According to international conventions, Antarctica is owned by all mankind and does not belong to any country in the world today. No country has the right to include Antarctica in its territory today. Linux chose penguin logo, its meaning is also to show: open source Linux, for all human beings collectively owned, no company has the right to its private.

There are many stories behind penguins.

In 1994, Ms. Iris established contact with Linus, the father of Linux, through the Internet. So she set out to market linux. Pacific HiTech's software offerings have expanded to include FreeBSD, OS/2, Macintosh, and Linux versions including Redhat, Slackware, Debian, etc., and Ms Iris herself has traveled more aggressively to Brazil and Germany to promote Linux. "The first Redhat disc was suppressed by us. "Years later, Ms. Iris is proud to mention it.

At this point, Ms. Iris tells us with interest about the origin of penguin, the symbol of Linux.

Ms. Iris designed an inverted triangular corporate logo for Linux to facilitate sales campaigns. However, this logo was firmly opposed by Linus 'girlfriend at that time, because the logo of the European Gay Organization was also such a set of inverted triangles. After the joke, they began to seriously discuss the Linux logo, and finally decided on the Linux logo because Linus had been bitten by penguins as a child and had always been afraid of penguins.

Its original creator, American artist Larry Ewing, said that everyone is welcome to use and modify the image of the little penguin in evening dress as they wish. Baby penguins also have a striking name: TUX! It is said that the name TUX (T UX means a semi-formal evening dress worn by men) is not because the penguin's black and white is like wearing an evening dress, but because it comes from a man named James Hughes, which is an abbreviation for (T)orvalds (U)ni(X), just like Linux is an abbreviation for Linus's minix.

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