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Some of our finest [ about ] Approved Articles Developed Articles (over 800) "Share your knowledge. It's a way to achieve immortality." — Life's Little Instruction Book by Jackson Brown and H. Jackson Brown, Jr. Article of the Week [ about ] Tux the penguin, the Linux mascot, as he most commonly appears and as originally drawn by Larry Ewing. Also see "A pictorial history of Tux". Tux the penguin is the official logo and cartoon mascot for the Linux computer operating system. First drawn in 1996 by Larry Ewing, the fun-loving character has a special place in many people's imaginations, both inside and outside of the global Linux community. Quest for a Linux logo Tux originated from a discussion on the "Linux kernel" mailing list. On May 1, 1996, early Linux contributor Matt Hartley began a thread entitled "Linux logo", which included an image by David Christiansen showing the planet Earth as seen from outer space, along with the captions "LINUX" and "Take your computer to another dimension." At one point, Linus Torvalds, the software engineer behind Linux, had casually mentioned his fondness of penguins, and list-users began to rally around the idea. [more...] New Draft of the Week [ about ] The current global financial crisis, which we are provisionally calling the Crash of 2008, is now very severe. Some analysts say it could be nearly as deep as the crash of 1929, which was the forerunner of the Great Depression. The present crisis began with American banking failures and near-failures, especially those of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, caused primarily by the subprime mortgages crisis but has now spread rapidly to affect diverse financial organisations and ordinary citizens throughout the world, and is expected to contribute to the severity of the developing recession of 2008. [more...]