A picture of the penguin Tux in front of a raibow flag. Found here: https://www.makeuseof.com/why-is-linux-logo-a-penguin-tux/
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TUX
Tux is the penguin that Linux uses as a logo. In 1993, Linus Torvald went to #Australia and got bitten by a penguin in a #Canberra zoo. In 1996, Alan Cox made a cartoon design of a penguin that Torvalds found online.
The name #TUX has been coined by James Hughes, and it is the contraction of "Torvald's UniX"... Weird, as you know, #Linux Is Not UniX :D
cc: @linguistics
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