>“I liken starting one's computing career with Unix, say as a undergraduate, to being born in East Africa. It is intolerably hot, your body is covered with lice and flies, you are malnourished and you suffer from numerous curable diseases. But, as far as young East Africans can tell, this is simply the natural condition and they live within it. By the time they find out differently, it is too late. They already think that the writing of shell scripts is a natural act.” — Ken Pier, Xerox PARC (~1980s?) Edit: Even better... >The Linux mascot is a satiated penguin. Concept by Linus Torvalds, drawn by Larry Ewing in 1996. His name is Tux. Fat and glutted with food and sex, according to the desire of its founder Linus Torvalds. Linus was a student from University of Helsinki, who around 1991 tried to improve a version of a homework OS called MINIX as a hobby. (MINIX is written by computer scientist Andrew S Tanenbaum) In the usual fashion of posting homework to the net, his “project” gradually caught on in the FreeSoftware community, and became Linux. The name is short for Linus's Unix. The major work on Linux is by Richard Stallman's FreeSoftware Foundation's project GNU. Thus sometimes Linux is called GNU/Linux.