Larry Ewing is an American computer programmer who is known as the creator of the

Linux Linux ( or ) is a family of open-source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991, by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged as a Linux distribution, w ...

mascot,

Tux Black tie is a semi-formal wear, semi-formal Western dress code for evening events, originating in British and American conventions for clothing, attire in the 19th century. In British English, the dress code is often referred to synecdochically ...

. The artwork was created in 1996, while Ewing was a student at Texas A&M University, originally as a submission to a contest to create the Linux logo. Though Ewing's submission didn't win, his artwork was adopted as the Linux "brand character".The History of Tux the Linux Penguin
Sjbaker.org. Retrieved 4 July 2013. Ewing also created the

Ximian Ximian, Inc. (previously called Helix Code and originally named International Gnome Support) was an American company that developed, sold and supported application software for Linux and Unix based on the GNOME platform. It was founded by Migu ...

and

Mono Mono may refer to: Common meanings * Infectious mononucleosis, "the kissing disease" * Monaural, monophonic sound reproduction, often shortened to mono * Mono-, a numerical prefix representing anything single Music Performers * Mono (Japanese b ...

monkey logos and is involved in: *

F-Spot F-Spot is a slowly maintained image organizer, designed to provide personal photo management for the GNOME desktop environment. The name is a play on the word F-Stop. History The F-Spot project was started by Ettore Perazzoli and is maintained ...

: a project aiming to "manage all your digital photography needs." * GtkHTML: a fast and dirty

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renderer and editor used in several

free software Free software or libre software is computer software distributed under terms that allow users to run the software for any purpose as well as to study, change, and distribute it and any adapted versions. Free software is a matter of liberty, no ...

projects. *

Novell Evolution GNOME Evolution (formerly Novell Evolution and Ximian Evolution, prior to Novell's 2003 acquisition of Ximian) is the official personal information manager for GNOME. It has been an official part of GNOME since Evolution 2.0 was included with ...

: a mailer, a calendar and a contact manager, all in one. * GIMP: an image manipulation program. * Moonlight: an open source implementation of Silverlight for Unix systems. *Mimekit: A C# MIME creation and parser library with support for S/MIME, PGP, TNEF and Unix mbox spools. *

.NET Foundation The .NET Foundation is an organization incorporated on March 31, 2014, by Microsoft to improve open-source software development and collaboration around the .NET Framework. It was launched at the annual Build 2014 conference held by Microsoft. T ...

: an independent organization, incorporated to improve open-source software development and collaboration around the .NET Framework. He lives in Austin with his wife Kristy and his daughters Eva and Hazel.

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External links

Larry Ewing's Home PageLarry Ewing's Tux PageLarry Ewing's Github Page
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