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I'm in this picture and I don't mind at all. Penguins are fucking cool. I'm gonna go to Argentina just to see them in the wild.
It is said that only those who make the pilgrimage to see the penguins in person will be blessed with the full power of linux
Do zoos count? Then child me might have given more power than I could have imagined.
A group of penguins is called a distribution.
Holy fuck, is that a GNU/LINUX reference?
Is this a Gnome reference?
Richard Stallman, the early days.
Edible...Foot...Fungus
Everybody knows god stole the idea of feet from GNOME
Death proof... This movie got me laughing so hard at this guy as a kid.. xD .. I'm surprised I still remember the movie's name
his name is tux!
Does anyone know how we ended up with penguins as the logo? I kinda get the BSD demon βbeastie.β Microsoft chose the windows flag/window pane. Mac has an Apple/the finder face. Android is a cute green robot. iOS pretends to be too sophisticated for a mascot so weβll just say itβs the Apple again.
And yet we somehow got penguins.
Wasn't it something like Linus really likes penguins?
Based on a song parody by SUSE I believe a 'little penguin bit him at the zoo'. But don't quote me on that.
SuSE songs are considered canon in the Linux world.
There's a story. If you search you'll find it readily.
I like petting them, can recommend. Dont get bitten, can't recommend.
The collective noun for a group of linuxes is a "a musk of linuxes"
These days I suspect most Linux users would like to distance themselves from the term βmuskβ.
I honestly forgor that guy exists for a second x3
Must have been a blissful moment, however brief
I actually really like Penguins, but I think it was because of Fight Club and not Linux.
I always liked penguins and Tux.. But that movie cemented penguins as my spirit animal :)
I liked penguins before Linux was
Are these called "Wojack" memes? I've never understood why this art style became so popular.
soyjaks. and they embody the more grubby parts of the web
Ah, gotcha. Feel like I'm too old to keep up with it now.
Penlings
Pangwangs
To be fair, I do that when I see puffins too
I can hear this meme.
So true