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Debian Seeks New Logo
Joy of joys! Debian is going to try
to get a new logo. They are doing this in conjunction with
the latest Gimp Contest.
My cheesy entry is on my gimp page
*grin*. Anyway, there are more details on the pages linked above-
and the winner gets a Debian CDs for their platform of choice
(no fair asking for for something that runs on your C64)
I think your logo looks tight
Heh. That was cool; I went to debian.org, forgetting what the logo looked like(which is odd considering it's my favorite distro..), and lo and behold the page came up in jap. Which was odd because I was in western encoding and my preferred language was set to english. =) At least I got to brush up on what little I do know of it. =)
Whats wrong with the current Debian Logo ?
I like it
-akopps
Yeah! Cool!
I've already got a version of UNIX that runs on my C64. It's called Lunix.
I want a version of UNIX for my IMSAI 8080 (BTW, that's a Intel 8080A based system). The only problem is I need to be able to toggle it in from the front panel as I don't have drive controller for the pair of 8" floppies I've got for it.
Check out http://hld.c64.org/poldi/lunix/lunix.html and http://newton.physics.metu.edu.tr/~filker/lunix/lu nif.html
/per - who can't remember his l/p
Debian GNU/Hurd, plus a series of unfortunate nicknames used by many developers: "Old Blue Eye", "The Chicken". Rob's entry is in many ways ideal, it's easy to decorate (add penguins or gnus), works in B&W and low resolution, isn't Linux specific, and already has wide recognition.
You people should be looking at www.debian.dk, someone's made a nice logo there :)
Oh, come on, learning Dselect consists of just reading 4 pages of help that it presents to you. After that you should be set. Dselect provides more funtionality than any other package manager. Want WindowMaker? Just select Window Maker from the list and it will preselect automatically all packages that wmaker depends on and fetch them all from ftp and install them. Come on, an experienced debian user will puke at rpm, setup and yast all taken together.
I really like the current Debian logo. I have the little penguin screen printed on a t-shirt so geeks can recognize me as a fellow Debian user.
Leave the logo alone!
I think CmdrTaco's logo is really nice, especially compared to
the other contest entries.
Submit it!
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Posted by ladicius:
I always thought rob's debian logo was pretty neat.
Posted by chiem:
Who or what is Jessica?
vector formats are far more flexible, you never
have to worry about scaling them. perhaps they
should be looking at GYVE instead of the gimp?
EPS is a good format. ghostscript reads it.
It is the right distribution, and don't call me Shirley.
Ooh, a sarcasm detector. Oh, that's a real useful invention.
I always thought rob's debian logo was pretty neat.
So did I - especially since it isn't based around a penguin; Debian would like to be multi-OS as well as multi-platform (the Hurd port exists and continues to improve; at least now they've got a working X). Also, the logo scales well, works in black and white, and looks good on machines with few colormap entries to spare.
Thank you god that their replacing that logo. Jeeze that pengiun that they have up there looks too damn business like. Feel like I'm using Caledra Linux when I view their webpage.
I like the current John Lennon-style penguin. It's *cute*. :)
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"'Is not a quine' is not a quine" is a quine.
Quine "quine?
I was actualy looking at contest.gimp.org, /.
/.ed!" I said ;)
and since it's crawling slower then 2400 baud
I figured I'd check
First thing I see is the deb logo story.
"Fuck, contest.gimp.org is
/Seva
The should seek a new sutup utility first, dselect stinks, it is NOT new user friendly at all. You reall have to know what you are doing to use this thing. They need something like YAST or even RedHat's setup utility is easier to use.
Only 'flamers' flame!
The Debian Logo looks fine to me. The SuSE one - now there's a logo that needs a makeover.
-- johnmc.
But I couldn't bring myself to write over the rom already in the old girl... C=64's kick ass, if the entire computing world ever just goes to shit, I must say there is always the C=64 to fall back on.
I like the Don't fear the penquins logo, that should be put about more.
I vote you shamelessly promote its use on your front page.