Please don't change Beastie to another crap logo such as NetBSD!!!

[Frank Laszlo]

Anthony Atkielski wrote:

>Dag-Erling Smørgrav writes:
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>>Tux is a mascot, not a logo.  These are Linux logos:
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>>http://images.slashdot.org/topics/topiccaldera.gif
>>http://images.slashdot.org/topics/topicdebian.gif
>>http://images.slashdot.org/topics/topicmandrake.gif
>>http://images.slashdot.org/topics/topicredhat.gif
>>http://images.slashdot.org/topics/topicsuse.gif
>>http://images.slashdot.org/topics/topicturbolinux.gif
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>I like Red Hat the best, and SuSE is the worst, IMO.
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Are we forgetting about the printing aspect of things? The redhat logo 
has some nice gradients in it.

>>The image that is sometimes used as an all-round Linux logo is not
>>"just Tux", but rather a particular representation of Tux in
>>combination with a logotype and an orange splash.  The author of that
>>logo is clearly aware of the distinction between a logo and a mascot:
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>>http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/logo/
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>These are too complex to be used as logos.
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And they just plain suck, IMHO.

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>>Here's a page (a NetBSD logo contest entry) which addresses many of
>>these concerns, and coincidentally underlines my point about the
>>daemon not being exclusive to FreeBSD:
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>>http://homepage.mac.com/codesamurai/netbsd-logo-entry/
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>Technically very clean, but too cute.
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Riddled with opinions! :)

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>>(this is so good I'm surprised NetBSD didn't adopt it, and I'd love to
>>see it submitted to the FreeBSD logo contest)
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>Eeuh, no.  Too cute.  It's important to avoid anything that looks like a
>cartoon.
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>The logo displayed on the NetBSD site is a zillion times better.
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More opinions!! jesus, does everyone have one of these? :)


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