On Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 06:42:07PM +0200, Nadav Har'El wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 20, 2002, Shlomi Fish wrote about "Re: National Linux logos":
> > on). Can't people be a little original and choose a different animal? (or
> > a human being, for change).
Red Hat have their shadow man, SuSE have their "Geeko" gecko, Mozilla
have their lizard, FSF have their GNU, GNOME have their foot, KDE
have their Kandalf, Debian have an unidentified swirl. Mandrake's logo
sucks ("Look mom! I got root!"). Yellow dog have a, well, yellow dog.
The name of which, by the way, comes from "yellow dog Democrat"
("likudnik saruf"), who would always vote Democrat even if the only
Democrat choice were a yello dog, and the OS preferences parallel as
related to Yellow Dog's special market is obvious.
> I chose a different animal (a childish yellow dog) for ivrix.org.il :)
> Linus pre-1.0 versions used to have a different logo, if I remember correctly-
> a shark (look at http://members.ozemail.com.au/~gedau/shark.gif).
>
> Anyway, human as logos/icons are out of the questions for religious Jews
> or Muslims, and they probably look a bit weird to anybody. What humans should
> we have on logos? Linus Torvalds? Alan Cox? Richard Stallman? These logos
> are bound to be scary :)
You bet they are. Go install Red Hat 6.[01] and see what is the icon
on the "kernel hacking" RPM package group menu -- Alan Cox's face, no
less, with his full two-feet beard and shades, staring directly at
the camera... No mortal newbie ever chooses this one.
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