Bah. The real story is that Linus got bit by a penguin (a 15 foot mutant one, as he tells it) at Sydney Zoo, when he was visiting Andrew Tridgell (the guy that started the samba project). See Rebel Code for the full story, or the emails are achived on various lkml archives[0]
Cheers, -Thom [0] lkml == linux kernel mailing list * Brett Parker (brettp@stu.uea.ac.uk) wrote :
On Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 01:21:24PM -0800, David Freeman wrote:
All,
Speaking to people at the last ALUG meeting I was amazed at how few people knew where the linux penguin came from. So I thought I would share with you the following link
http://tuxaqfh.sourceforge.net/doc/index.html
Which gives a good history of where the penguin comes from.
Thanks
D
I thought it was common knowledge, someone adopted a penguin for linus.
Cheers,
Brett
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