On the occasion of the upcoming release of the Linux 3.1 kernel, Daric Wong from IBM proposed to change the Tux logo to a more appropriate version number:
Just in case, let me remind you the logo of one operating system released 19 years ago:
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Moreover, the probability of changing the logo is not exactly zero: in Linux version 2.6.29 in 2009, Tux was replaced by the Tasmanian devil, called "Tuz", to "support the efforts to save [the animal] from disappearing due to the devil's facial tumor."
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