Re: Idea of a Debian Mascot [Was: FW: Bits from the DPL: FTP assistants, marketing team, init scripts, elections]
Douglas A. Tutty <dtutty@porchlight.ca>:
> On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 09:41:24PM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote:
> > ----- Forwarded message from Sam Hocevar <leader@debian.org> -----
>
> > I also would like to spend some Debian money on a contest, similar to
> > the FreeBSD logo contest [2], to create a friendly mascot for the Debian
> > project (in a similar way to the Linux penguin or the GNU gnu) that we
> > can use where the logo is not enough. More on this in a few days.
> >
>
> The Debian Swirl reminds me of some kind of worm or shellfish.
There was an ancient, giant snail sort of thing (whose name escapes
me) which spent it's life floating in the ocean wherever the currwent
took it. Some fossils are a few feet across.
> Can't call it the Debian Shrimp since its nees so much memory...
Bite your tongue:
(0) phreaque /home/keeling_ free
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 508752 475916 32836 0 9352 254400
-/+ buffers/cache: 212164 296588
Swap: 248968 64 248904
Blame yourself if your system's too fat.
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