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Cute pumpkin carved with a picture of Tux on the front

Making Tux a very happy penguin, Google and its Open Handset Alliance partners have delivered on the promise they made last year and have now made Android and open source mobile platform.

The main character named Hackles is a dog programmer who is clearly into Linux and open source. He is joined by two tux-looking penguins, a web-developer cat, and some other other cool characters.

All that will be left behind when the Alien archaeologists come to see what happened to our world will be a little picture of Tux. We should have seen it coming - the penguin reaper is here!

ZDNet: "But open source has not grown through branding. Tux is a cute penguin, but the primary way open source has gained power is through values."

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Linux is simply the most useful operating system ever created. Linux takes all the well-known virtues of UNIX and makes them extremely easy to apply and improve.

Because its source code is open, and the whole community is welcome to help improve that code, Linux has grown to serve the needs of that community in better and better ways.

Editor's Note: Linux has so much potential, you can now just pick an idea and run with it.

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Stony Stevenson writes to tell us IT News is reporting that Acer is betting big on Linux , looking to push Tux on many of their upcoming laptops and netbooks.