Larry Ewing is an American

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who is known as the creator of the

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mascot, Tux. The artwork was created in 1996, while Ewing was a student at Texas A&M University, originally as a submission for 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

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and Mono monkey logos and is involved in: * F-Spot: 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

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projects. * Novell Evolution: a mailer, a calendar and a contact manager, all in one. *

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: an image manipulation program. *

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: 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: 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 Page

Larry Ewing's Tux Page

Larry Ewing's Github Page
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