Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 18:15:49 +0100 From: Anthony Atkielski <atkielski.anthony@wanadoo.fr> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Please don't change Beastie to another crap logo such as NetBSD!!! Message-ID: <726350235.20050211181549@wanadoo.fr> In-Reply-To: <86d5v7npya.fsf@xps.des.no> References: <e6575a3050209103214480161@mail.gmail.com> <420A6465.30402@sbcglobal.net> <20050209202922.GA18393@fw.farid-hajji.net> <86d5v7npya.fsf@xps.des.no>
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Dag-Erling Smørgrav writes: > Tux is a mascot, not a logo. These are Linux logos: > > 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 I like Red Hat the best, and SuSE is the worst, IMO. > 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: > > http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/logo/ These are too complex to be used as logos. > 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: > > http://homepage.mac.com/codesamurai/netbsd-logo-entry/ Technically very clean, but too cute. > (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) Eeuh, no. Too cute. It's important to avoid anything that looks like a cartoon. The logo displayed on the NetBSD site is a zillion times better. -- Anthony
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