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Linux mascot Tux the penguin hits 30 years old — Linus Torvalds outlined the design of the 'slightly overweight penguin' on May 9, 1996 (www.tomshardware.com)

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The contented penguin had to be overweight like it had eaten a bucketful of herring, as the only other kind of happy penguin is one that has ‘just gotten laid,’ reasoned the Linux supremo.

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[–] stoy@lemmy.zip 11 points 23 hours ago

Holy shit I misread "outlined" as "outlived" and had a mini panic attack until I reread the sentence.