Please don't change Beastie to another crap logo such as NetBSD!!!

[Anthony Atkielski]

Dag-Erling Smørgrav writes:

> Tux is a mascot, not a logo.  These are Linux logos:
>
> http://images.slashdot.org/topics/topiccaldera.gif
> http://images.slashdot.org/topics/topicdebian.gif
> http://images.slashdot.org/topics/topicmandrake.gif
> http://images.slashdot.org/topics/topicredhat.gif
> http://images.slashdot.org/topics/topicsuse.gif
> http://images.slashdot.org/topics/topicturbolinux.gif

I like Red Hat the best, and SuSE is the worst, IMO.

> The image that is sometimes used as an all-round Linux logo is not
> "just Tux", but rather a particular representation of Tux in
> combination with a logotype and an orange splash.  The author of that
> logo is clearly aware of the distinction between a logo and a mascot:
>
> http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/logo/

These are too complex to be used as logos.

> Here's a page (a NetBSD logo contest entry) which addresses many of
> these concerns, and coincidentally underlines my point about the
> daemon not being exclusive to FreeBSD:
>
> http://homepage.mac.com/codesamurai/netbsd-logo-entry/

Technically very clean, but too cute.

> (this is so good I'm surprised NetBSD didn't adopt it, and I'd love to
> see it submitted to the FreeBSD logo contest)

Eeuh, no.  Too cute.  It's important to avoid anything that looks like a
cartoon.

The logo displayed on the NetBSD site is a zillion times better.

-- 
Anthony