Re: Linux logo
Albert Cahalan (albert@ccs.neu.edu)
Mon, 13 May 1996 22:00:26 -0400 (EDT)
>> for the 2.0 logo competition (see the suggestions at
>> http://www.cs.earlham.edu/~jeremiah/linux-pix/linux-logo.html), most
>> of these aren't logos - they are *pictures* that look nice on a
>> computer screen, but are hopeless as a logo. If something is to be
>> a useful logo, a minimum requirement must be that it looks good
>> *on paper*, not only on a monitor.
>
> At the moment a few people are working on a very nice penguin that does
> scale, does seem to shrink down and doesnt seem to look too much like other
> people's logos. At the end of the day its up to Linus but I think we may
> be getting somewhere
>
> http://www.isc.tamu.edu/~lewing/linux/
>
> Alan
I swore I wouldn't add to this thread but...
Penguins have a pointy beak, and I think the head shape is different.
The one at http://www.isc.tamu.edu/~lewing/linux looks too much like
Homer Simpson. Other than that, it is very well done.