Tux passes the baton to Tuz, the hastily-disguised Tasmanian Devil… at least for this release. Great to see one of the more high profile pledges of the madcap, ridiculous, wonderful and incredibly generous linux.conf.au 2009 auction being paid off. 
linux.conf.au 2009: Tuz Impact: help prevent extinction of species The Tasmanian Devil is a shy iconic Australian creature named for its spine-chilling screech. It is threatened with extinction due to a scientifically interesting but horrific transmissible facial cancer. This one is standing in for Tux for one release using the far less-known Devil Facial Tux Disguise. Save The Tasmanian Devil http://tassiedevil.com.au Signed-off-by: Linux.conf.au Hobart Team <contact@marchsouth.org> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Let’s hope they keep it around as a selectable option in
make menuconfigfor future releases, even after they reset Tux to the default.jdub: Please poke the appropriate canonical people to ensure this patch remains in an actual Ubuntu release
Coolest
Patch
Ever
Kudos to Rusty for picking that up and running with it. By next morning he had the boot screen demo for us.
Memories of that crazy auction in the Wrest Point mega-hall will always bring a smile.
@John Ferlito: Odds are that 2.6.29 itself won’t be in an Ubuntu release, unfortunately. I’d imagine 2.6.30 will be more timely for 9.10, given that 2.6.29 just shipped… but I could be wrong. We’ll have an idea soon enough, when the blueprints for 9.10 appear, and there’s discussion at UDS.