“There’s a group on Purdue’s campus with a passion for a
penguin. The group is the Purdue Linux Users Group, and the
penguin’s name is Tux.“Group president James Mahler, a senior in the College of
Science, said Tux is the mascot for Linux, the popular open-source
computer operating system. PLUG is an organization devoted to
working with and better understanding issues that relate to the
series of the programs that make up the system…”