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Debian's old logo

Submitted by IntnsRed on Mon, 2006-07-24 10:57.

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A blast from the past. This is Debian's old logo, a Penguin representation affectionately known as the "chicken". This logo was changed by a 1999 vote to the present-day "swirl" logos.

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why did they change it?

Submitted by vees on Mon, 2006-07-24 12:26.

Neat,

Do you know why/how it was changed?

Cheers,

VS

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Re: why did they change it?

Submitted by IntnsRed on Mon, 2006-07-24 17:47.

For detail it's all still in the Debian mailing list archives.

But as I recall...

#include /dev/random/memory :-)

... there were two big arguments in favor of changing the logo:

(1) A penguin was inappropriate because Debian was planned to include/use more kernels than just Linux (e.g. BSD, Hurd).

(2) It looked like a chicken. :-)

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Oh... i was wondering about

Submitted by pinniped on Mon, 2006-07-24 16:59.

Oh... i was wondering about the origin of the swirl. Now I see, it's the 'chicken' in a blender!

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Cool I've never seen that logo

Submitted by gavinnz on Mon, 2006-07-24 18:12.

Cool I've never seen that before having only joined after potatoe.

The swirl is great though I have it on my disconected home page, big and red, and sometimes on my desktop and things I give ppl and.....:-)

Are we just a blip in history, where the working class had too much access to information and freedom?

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