"TUX" - "LINUX Penguin"

Dessiné en 1996 par Larry Ewing via GIMP (the GNU Image Manipulation Program), sur les conseils de Linus Torvalds, Tux est devenu le logo officiel du noyau LINUX.

L'image que se faisait L. Torvalds du futur logo de linux: "you should be imagining a slightly overweight penguin, sitting down after having gorged itself, and having just burped. It's sitting there with a beatific smile -- the world is a good place to be when you have just eaten a few gallons of raw fish and you can feel another burp coming."