On 21:22 Sat 06 May , Joshua Jackson wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > I've talked about this multiple times but its fallen on death ears so > I'm going to bring it up to the everyone who reads this mailing list. > > I've noticed a disturbing trend with the website redesign. Larry is > disappearing from the site. Most noticeably from the about page. The > Larry looking for something different in a OS poster is no where to be > found. This is quite disturbing to me because I know a lot of the > users and developers enjoy the wackiness having a cow as a mascot > instead of a penguin to be one of the things that make us unique. > Gentoo has four main things that define us as a whole just for > appearances sake. Those are: the color purple, the signature G, Larry > the (transgender via lots of debate over if a bull can be a cow, and > why a bull would have udders) cow, and the little alien floating guy. > > Even within bugzilla there are references to Larry like the following: > http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=100001 . We've never had a > penguin like most other distro's that help define their distro. Even > our freebsd port is the Gentoo G in red with the horns and tail. > > Curtis has said he doesn't want to remove then entirely, but that is > exactly what is happening. I just don't want to lose what gives us > visually and jokingly personality. I just can't sit by any longer and > not bring it up, as I feel that its just getting rid of the heritage > that has been around longer then a lot of us have been developers. > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFEXXYfSENan+PfizARArNqAJ9MasjnAcoCuqrqoTxHeF0LBQSFxACghit+ > lySh2tUzKRJSxlEBq4JNz4E= > =cKgC > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > -- > gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list >
I like this cow very much. Rhywek. -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
