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Does .Net Have

A mascot as adorable as Duke ( http://java.sun.com/features/1999/05/duke_gallery.html )?

"Duke does like coffee, Duke Ellington, John Wayne, elegant code, and naps." The naps could explain Java's perceived performance problems. :)

And does that Linux Penguin have a name?

Walter Rumsby
Monday, December 1, 2003

Linux penguin is called "Tux"

Dan G
Monday, December 1, 2003

Ah, maybe someone could make a Quake mod where Tux and Duke... duke it out.

Walter Rumsby
Monday, December 1, 2003

Duke would have to be quite literally the last name I would have applied to that little blob character. Maybe "Pip" or "Yentle", but "Duke"?

Dennis Forbes
Monday, December 1, 2003

I believe the mascot is LG...  Long Green and the symbol is $ although I don't have a reference.


Monday, December 1, 2003

He kind of looks like dookie

someone hadto
Monday, December 1, 2003

.Net will probably adopt BoB as he isn't doing much else these days.

Mike
Monday, December 1, 2003

Who needs Tux or Duke? Glenda rules!

http://www.cs.bell-labs.com/plan9dist/glenda.html

as
Tuesday, December 2, 2003

http://www.thesimpsons.com/bios/images/bios_townspeople_burns.gif called, but we felt he was too touchy-feely to our liking. Besides, it would go against the team spirit, so we stuck with the rest of the crew. If you realy need cutesie cartoons for pansies try http://images.google.com/images?q=borg+sanrio&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&safe=off , but we prefer the straight http://www.vanderbilt.edu/AnS/Chemistry/lsms/hugh%20borg.jpg

Just me (Sir to you)
Tuesday, December 2, 2003

They could resurrect Clippy.  <g>

Robert Jacobson
Tuesday, December 2, 2003

In my opinion the BSD daemon (does he have a name?) is by far the best mascot of all time. And the GNU mascot (whatever that thing is) is the worst.

Sven G. Ali
Tuesday, December 2, 2003

isn't it a gnu?

. . . .
Tuesday, December 2, 2003

The BSD daemon...  http://www.mckusick.com/beastie/index.html

....at the end of a spiel on that page, he says "beastie" if you need to put a name to him. And he is the coolest mascot. Thought of ditching linux for BSD a few times because of him.

Arron Bates
Thursday, December 4, 2003

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