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Re: The Other Linux Logo

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Post by numpad0 »

This is absurd. I literally spent 30 seconds with the image on GIMP, making just few warps and it's markedly better. I don't mean to make a pull request or anything and I still don't exactly like/love it, but my point is, the original clearly was built on solid artistic basis and yet they published the alien head. What was the author thinking?

1: http://numpad0.com/imgs/2025-09-28%20002632.png

e: I think by far the biggest problem is completely circular eyes. Just replacing it with ovals solve minimum half of the problem. Then the head can be enlarged for better feeling of attachment. The beak can be sharper too. But those are less problematic than the eyes. Even just removing them altogether helps.

Re: The Other Linux Logo

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Post by pndy »

card_zero wrote: post #54
teddyh wrote: post #53

I was always partial to the Linux logo with the red triangle (from 1994): https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/logos/raytraced/linux-povl... >. (More old Linux logos here: https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/logos/!INDEX.html >)

That's a nazi concentration camp badge of shame, I think? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_concentration_camp_badge "Political prisoner", in fact.

You're attributing too much

It's just a logo that's built around single triangle. It's like saying ACDC band promotes nazi ideology because it has a lightning symbol and gothic looking letters in their logo

It's clear these Linux logos weren't done by professionals and by some examples not even with serious usage intent

Compare above to:

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Logo_suggestions?useskin=vec...

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/International_logo_contest/F...

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/International_logo_contest/O...

https://www.without-systemd.org/wiki/index_php/Category_Logo...

https://pkgbuild.com/%7Ejelle/logo-contest/

Let me be harsh and say: some people know how to design and some shouldn't touch graphic programs

Re: The Other Linux Logo

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Post by pndy »

jsheard wrote: post #12
Aldipower wrote: post #2

I am sorry to say this, but this one looks soulless to me.

Can we bring this https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Crystal128-penguin.s... version back instead? I hear Apple has decreed that glossy/glassy design is cool again.

There were times when Crystal was even "ported" as Windows visual theme and later as package that swapped resource files: https://archive.org/details/crystal-xp-3.0

Re: The Other Linux Logo

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Post by pndy »

NoiseBert69 wrote: post #19
jsheard wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Can we bring this https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Crystal128-penguin.s... version back instead? I hear Apple has decreed that glossy/glassy design is cool again.

Stroke Tux

Clearly modules were broken and kernel couldn't be build

Re: The Other Linux Logo

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Post by lucasoshiro »

xorcist wrote: post #57

I thought this would be about the other Linux logo, that preceeded the penguin: https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/logos/platypus/llogo.gif

Do you have more information about it? By googling "Linux platypus" the only thing that I could find is that exact URL
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