The official Mascot of Linux ,the penguin popularly known as TUX ,was created as an entry to a Linux logo competition. The concept of using Penguin was the idea of The Linux creator Linus Torvalds.
Linus Torvalds is firstly inspired by a photograph of an FTP websites ,showing a Penguin Figurine looking strangely.
It is however designed by Larry Ewing and then modified by Torvalds.
The name Tux was given by James Hughes, who said that it stood for "(T)orvalds (U)ni(X)".
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