More Cool Linux Pictures

This classic may be the first Linux "logo" ever created; it was apparently posted by Thomas Dunbar as a METAFONT (TeX) character way back on 2 February 1993. Our bud Olaf Kirch dug it up and sent it in:

This cool animated image is from the SciTeXt home page and was apparently created by the SciTeXt developers, Matthias "Angus" Greim and Christian "Ulli" Ullenboom. Andrew Fish rearranged it slightly so that the first image is the LinuX Shred-O-Matic, which then re-enters on the left and destroys a certain other logo (that happens to be a registered trademark of Microsoft, cough cough, mumble mumble):

Paul Jaekel similarly abuses another Microsoft logo:

And Tony Henry just throws rocks...big rocks:

Sometimes simplicity rules. This "straightforward" button was created by Chris Snell. Say it loud, say it proud, bro!

Wlodzimierz Lapot submitted this alternate beer-glass style for the Virtual Beer logo; the "virtual" part is missing, but perhaps that can be rectified one of these days:

Here's a threesome by Ean Schuessler's brother Erik:

Here's a pair from Gregory Youngblood of InfiniCom, really designed for a white background:

The tomorrow theme is a popular one, as also seen in this raytraced design by Rich Demanowski:

These three ray-traced variations on a theme are from Steven "World Wide" Webb (steve@wynde.com) and rendered with Truespace:

This POV-Ray-generated sunset image is by James Roth:

Rob Wehrli designed this in-your-face image; do we detect a certain anti-Windoze bias? Nahhh...

Mike Callaham created this sly Star Wars-based image with POV-Ray 2.2; it may be a little rough, but its cleverness makes up for that:

Here's another clever design, although it's not immediately apparent what the relationship is between Linux and a bunch of medieval weapons... Brian Hammond is responsible:

Here's one more ray-traced Linux-95 logo, courtesy of Ron Holt of Caldera and elegant in its simplicity. It was created by Ralph Yarro Design (ralph@nft.com):

This lovely image by Charles Barrasso is even simpler and--dare Greg say it?--even more elegant:

Messing with the dot of the `i' is another theme that runs through several of the images in Greg's collection. This cute image by Frank Hart suffers from poor contrast in the central region, unfortunately:

Ward Bekker made this logo with a worthy slogan. The copyright is rather obtrusive and breaks the symmetry, but the idea is good:

This pair of ray-traced Linux logos is by J&J Imaging (creators of the non-Linux Segmentation Fault and Floating-Point EGGception images available elsewhere). The first was rendered with POV-Ray on an HP 9000/750 (presumably not running Linux); the second was created under Windows (gasp!) with 3DFX from Asymmetrix. Both can be ordered directly as t-shirts, mugs, mouse pads and whatnot. Greg would like to thank John Fawcett for sending him a clean, high-resolution version of the New Beginning graphic simply in order to create the small image shown here:

Moving into the more abstract, the ultra-chrispy Chris Philo made this:

This image by Michael J. Hammel appeared in his article on "Graphics Tools For Linux" in Issue 31 of the Linux Journal. For those like Greg who can't, at first glance, quite make out what the background is supposed to be, it's an abstract view of buildings along a city street: