Linux Penguins on the Web

Penguin Trivia #46:
    Animals who are not penguins can only wish they were.
        -- Chicago Reader 10/15/82

This index is meant to point to web pages that reveal everything you ever wanted to know about Linux penguins but never dared ask.

If you know of an interesting or otherwise funny web object (picture, page, or whatever) about Linux Penguins, whose URL I do not list, please contact me so I can add a pointer to it in this index. Similarly, contact me if my page has any dangling pointer. Do M. de la Quixa?

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Yours truly,

Do M. de la Quixa.

Linux penguins:

The picture:
- Larry Ewing's original Linux Penguin.
- Andreas Dilger's 2.2 variants.
- Tux redrawn in CorelDraw! (PostScript and GIF included).
- The Penguin Gallery at Linux Weekly News.
- Another Gallery by John Galt.
- This icon to use with LOADLIN.
The background:
- A Complete History of Tux. (So Far), by Steve Baker. Great resource about Tux.
- The Linux Logo Contest not won by Tux.
- A man named Linus B. Torvalds has a page with a nice blinking penguin (also on linux.cz).
- Linux Sponsored Penguin at Bristol Zoo.
- Linux Online's very instructive page on the Linux Logo.
The funny details:
- Bernhard Hailer's The Secret Life of Linux Penguins.
- TuX's adventures Down Under (also kind of a portuguese translation).
- Linux cartoons.
- Animated 3D Penguins.
- A funny linux penguin at Gigaperls.
- The penguindance.
- merlinsoftech has a short penguin animation.
- Bob McLaren's Neo Tux (also Darth Tux).
- A Penguin made of LEGO.
- With the Stile Project, linux penguins boldly go where no linux penguin has gone before, but for some reason, people don't seem to pay much attention to the penguins -- beware, this otherwise linux-unrelated site displays overt bad taste and adult material, that might hurt some people's sensibilities, as they did hurt the feelings of some readers of this page.
- Other indices and galleries from: OpenHere, Liz Jordan.
- The smallest penguin on earth?
- Nice Gallery by Andreas Rimheden.
- Yet another Gallery from localhost.be
- Lenny Ping's wonderful journeys.
- Dave Regan's page on linux penguins.
- Avi Alkalay's Linux Image Index.
- Penguin Art, a collection of Tux portraits and more from Coresis.
- Eriks Daliba's great Linux penguin gallery.
- Michal Kosmulski's Tux in origami.
- Thomas Saur makes pictures of Linux penguins.
- David Ginger and friends collect penguin wallpapers.
The software:
- The definitive penguin game, starring Tux: Tuxedo T. Penguin: A Quest for Herring. Open Source, 3D, yadda yadda; what more does the people ask for? Thanks to Steve and Oliver Baker!
- Another game: X-Tux, by Dave Lawrence and Jim Andrews.
- Penguin Logos: at MetaLab; Welcome2Linux.
- X Goodies: XPinguin, tuXeyes or Penguineyes.
- Ask freshmeat about Tux...

Other penguins:

Lux, a cousin of Tux, is the mascot of LinuxCare.
pokey the penguin (mirror at Lysator).
penguins live at the Montreal biodome.
Tiny Giggles.

Shopping:

Generic shops:
- In the US: Penguin Power at the LinuxMall.
- In Europe: Ikarios.
Stuffed Penguins specifically:
- A few pages about them: The Secret Life of ...; TuX's adventures ...; Neko's; Petra's.
- "Adopting" (purchasing) ones from Germany: Der Linux Fanshop (has got a GNU gnu and a BSD daemon, too!); JFL; SuSE.
- penguins-r-us is a nice dutch site selling stuffed penguins in Europe.
Other shops:

Miscellaneous:

Domain named after Tux: tux.org
Nice linux penguins around there: Bruno Bellamy's, Badtech (and again)
Tux is watching you at indigo.org (or maybe the other way round).
Non-Linux penguins:
- penguinia, kingdom of the penguins.
- Penguins Everywhere!!!
- penguin activities for children (no, it's not linux-related, but who says it can't be fun?) -- beware, this otherwise linux-unrelated site displays overt silly taste and children material, that might hurt some people's sensibilities, as they would have hurt the feelings of W. C. Fields.
<insert your favorite penguin site here>

Do M. de la Quixa