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Larry Ewing

American computer programmer

Life: 1978 – present
Born: April 3, 1978
Nationality: United States

Larry Ewing is an American computer programmer who is known as the creator of the Linux mascot, Tux. The artwork was created in 1996, while Ewing was a student at Texas A&M University, originally as a submission for a contest to create the Linux logo. Though Ewing's submission didn't win, his artwork was adopted as the Linux "brand character". Ewing also created the Ximian and Mono monkey logos and is involved in:F-Spot: a project aiming to "manage all your digital photograph