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You may wonder:

It's 32 years old, so why does Tux look like a cub?

To that I say: It's 32 years... young!
Linux has never been more in shape than it is today :)

spoilerYou may title this as "The Curious Case of Benjamin ButTux", ooor not, that sounds suspiciously like "buttocks"


Side note

I wasn't expecting the birthday to come already, but, as it happens, I was working on my Tux design these past few days, so I felt hard pressed to release some celebratory art today when I found out.
You can see the little guy being built right now in my ~~laboratory~~ repository: https://codeberg.org/quazar-omega/tux-reloaded

I'll be posting a proper announcement when I feel like it's ready (if I don't get burned out before that X﹏X )

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[–] austin@aussie.zone 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] QuazarOmega@lemy.lol 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yay!!
Now that you mention it though, I wonder, on which day was Tux created? I could only find the year, which is 1996.

By the way, could I bother you to give me some feedback on the design, I'd like to know if there's anything I should change

[–] lord_ryvan@ttrpg.network 1 points 1 year ago

No not Tux, the Linux kernel!