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Definition: Tux |
TuxNoun1. Semiformal evening dress for men. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definition |
Computing | Tux Tux the Penguin is the official emblem of Linux, This eventuated after a logo contest in 1996, during which Linus Torvalds endorsed the idea of a penguin logo in a couple of famously funny postings (http://www.woodsoup.org/~sbaker/tux/doc/). Linus explained that he was once bitten by a killer penguin in Australia and has felt a special affinity for the species ever since. (Linus has since admitted that he was also thinking of Feathers McGraw, the evil-genius penguin jewel thief who appeared in a Wallace & Grommit feature cartoon, "The Wrong Trousers".) Larry Ewing designed (http://www.isc.tamu.edu/~lewing/linux/) the official Tux logo. It has proved a wise choice, amenable to hundreds of recognizable variations used as emblems of Linux-related projects, products, and user groups. In fact, Tux has spawned an entire mythology, of which the Gospel According to Tux (http://www.ao.com/~regan/penguins/tux.html) and the mock-epic poem "Tuxowolf" are among the best-known examples. There is a `real' Tux - a black-footed penguin resident at the Bristol Zoo. Several friends of Linux bought a zoo sponsorship for Linus as a birthday present in 1996. Source: Jargon File. |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Tux the Linux PenguinTux is the official Linux logo — a satiated, happy, chubby penguin. The idea of the Linux mascot being a penguin came from Linus Torvalds, the creator of the Linux kernel.
It is sometimes (but probably apocryphally) reported that the name was derived from Torvalds UniX, a name suggested by James Hughes, as opposed to the explanation that penguins look vaguely like they are wearing a tuxedo.
Tux was designed during a contest to determine the best Linux logo. Pictures of some of the other logo contestants can be found at The Linux Logo Competition site. The original design for Tux was done by Larry Ewing in 1996 using the GIMP, a free software art package, and he has released it under the following terms and conditions:
According to Jeff Ayers, Linus Torvalds had a "fixation for flightless, fat waterfowl" and Torvalds claims to have contracted penguinitis after being gently nibbled upon by a penguin. "Penguinitis makes you stay awake at nights just thinking about penguins and feeling great love towards them." Torvalds' supposed illness is of course a joke, but he really was bitten by a little penguin on a visit to Canberra[1]. Torvalds was looking for something fun and sympathetic to associate with Linux, and a slightly fat penguin sitting down after having had a great meal perfectly fit the bill.
- Permission to use and/or modify this image is granted provided you acknowledge me lewing@isc.tamu.edu and The GIMP if someone asks. [1]
Tux has become an icon for the Linux and Open Source community, with one British Linux user group adopting several penguins at Bristol Zoo. He is much more famous than his big friend, GNU, a peaceful and shy gnu that represents the GNU Project, another Open Source Project.
Tux is the star of a Linux game called Tux Racer, in which the user guides Tux down a variety of different icy hills on his belly, trying to catch herring and beat the time limit.
External link
- A complete history of Tux
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Tux."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
TUX | English | Tuna-like fishes(not elsewhere identified) | Food & Agriculture, Biology & Biotechnology |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: TuxSynonyms: black tie (n), dinner jacket (n), tuxedo (n). (additional references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | It fitted when I picked up the tux. How could it not fit now (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer) Remember?! I went to prom with a tux painted on my naked body (Saving Silverman; writing credit: Hank Nelken; Greg DePaul) It's a rented tux. Okay (Friends; writing credit: Jörn O. Jensen; Birger Larsen) Thanks for lending me your tux dad. And it will be perfect for my wedding (Futurama; writing credit: Lance Smith; Carl Colpaert) Mason, you look wonderful in your tux. (Santa Barbara; writing credit: Meg Bennett; Bettina F. Bradbury) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Max e Tux (2002) | |
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Books | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Bald, round man in tux smoking a cigar in front of a painting of a chariot race labeled "Dick Croker" of Tammany Hall. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Drunken tux" by Julia Eisenberg Commentary: "Drunken tux." |
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| "Tux" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 87.50% of the time. "Tux" is used about 8 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 87.5% | 7 | 133,076 |
| Noun (proper) | 12.5% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 8 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "tux": silver tux. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
tux | 381 | linux penguin tux | 8 |
tux rental | 121 | rent tux | 7 |
mr tux | 97 | paint tux | 7 |
garys tux | 81 | las rental tux vegas | 7 |
garys tux shop | 81 | gary tux | 6 |
friar tux | 65 | man tux | 6 |
racer tux | 55 | linux tux wallpaper | 6 |
tux shirt | 43 | squire tux | 6 |
tux shop | 40 | measurement tux | 6 |
tux linux | 25 | ohio tux | 5 |
tux t shirt | 24 | marry tux | 5 |
wedding tux | 24 | tux tails | 5 |
friar shop tux | 23 | american commodore tux | 5 |
tux wallpaper | 17 | ring bearer tux | 5 |
tux penguin | 15 | groom tux | 5 |
after hours tux | 14 | cheap tux | 5 |
run tux | 11 | gingiss tux | 5 |
tux picture | 9 | tux white | 5 |
prom tux | 9 | boy tux | 4 |
humax tux | 9 | create tux | 4 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "tux"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Arabic | التكس. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | смокинг (dinner jacket, tuxedo). (various references) | |
Danish | rumdragt (extravehicular suit, silver tux, space suit). (various references) | |
Dutch | ruimtepak (extravehicular suit, silver tux, space suit). (various references) | |
Finnish | avaruuspuku (space-suit). (various references) | |
French | smoking (tuxedo). (various references) | |
German | smoking (dinner jacket, dinner-jacket, dj, tuxedo, tuxedoUS). (various references) | |
Greek | σμόκιν (dinner jacket, tuxedo), ημιεπίσημο ανδρικό σακάκι (tuxedo). (various references) | |
Hungarian | szmoking (black tie, dinner jacket, smoking jacket, tuxedo). (various references) | |
Italian | tuta spaziale (spacesuit). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | uxtay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | fato de astronauta (silver tux). (various references) | |
Russian | of tuxedo, смокинг (dinner jacket, dinner-jacket, evening dress, tuxedo). (various references) | |
Spanish | traje espacial (space suit), traje de astronauta (silver tux). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "tux": tuxedo, tuxedoed, tuxedoes, tuxedos, tuxes. (additional references) | |
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"Tux" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: eux, gux, Jux, nuxx, oux, shux, stux, taox, tcx, teggs, tex, tix, tixy, tju, Tjuo, tkxt, toax, torx, tox, toxy, Truax, trux, ttx, tu, tua, tuc, tucxi, tud, tuf, tuggs, tuh, tui, tuj, tuk, tul, tuq, tus, tuu, tuv, tuw, tuxe, tuxi, tuxo, tuxs, tuxt, tuxy, Tuy, tuzi, Tvu, twx, tx, txp, txx, tyuc, tyx, Utc. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "tux" (pronounced tu"ks) |
| 4 | t u" k s | tucks. |
| 3 | -u" k s | Bucks, clucks, crux, deluxe, ducks, flux, Hucks, lucks, lux, plucks, rucks, shucks, sucks, trucks, yuks. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "t-u-x" | |
-1 letter: ut, xu. | |
| Words containing the letters "t-u-x" | |
+2 letters: exult, taxus, tuxes. | |
+3 letters: eutaxy, exeunt, exults, luxate, outbox, outfox, surtax, tuxedo, unfixt, unmixt, unvext, urtext, xystus. | |
+4 letters: auxetic, bateaux, bauxite, coteaux, execute, exhaust, extrude, exudate, exulted, fixture, foxhunt, gateaux, luxated, luxates, mixture, outjinx, quixote, saxtuba, subtaxa, subtext, textual, texture, tubifex, tuxedos, ulexite, untaxed, urtexts. | |
+5 letters: auxetics, batteaux, bauxites, bauxitic, buxomest, chateaux, couteaux, curtalax, dextrous, eutaxies, euxenite, executed, executer, executes, executor, exhausts, exiguity, extremum, extruded, extruder, extrudes, extubate, exudates, exultant, exulting, exuviate, fixtures, fluxgate, foxhunts, luxating, luxation, manteaux, mixtures, octuplex, outboxed, outboxes, outfoxed, outfoxes, oxtongue, plateaux, quixotes, quixotic, quixotry, saxtubas, sextuple, sextuply, subtaxon, subtexts, supertax, surtaxed, surtaxes, tableaux, textuary, textural, textured, textures, tonneaux, trumeaux, tuxedoed, tuxedoes, ulexites, undertax, unexotic, unexpert, xanthous, xystuses. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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