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==Logo and mascots== The [[gentoo penguin]] is thought to be the fastest underwater-swimming penguin. The name Gentoo Linux is a reference both to the omnibus Linux mascot{{Mdash}} a penguin called [[Tux (mascot)|Tux]]{{Mdash}} and the project's aim to produce a high-performance operating system.<ref name="Negus2008">{{cite book|author=Christopher Negus|title=Linux Bible: Boot Up to Ubuntu, Fedora, KNOPPIX, Debian, openSUSE, and 11 Other Distributions|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gqXiuPySGg8C&pg=PA389|date=May 5, 2008|publisher=John Wiley & Sons|isbn=978-0-470-28706-4|pages=389β|access-date=April 20, 2020|archive-date=March 26, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230326011818/https://books.google.com/books?id=gqXiuPySGg8C&pg=PA389|url-status=live}}</ref>{{rp|383}} Unofficial mascots include ''Larry The Cow''<ref name=gentoo-about/> and ''Znurt the Flying Saucer''.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://sources.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/gentoo/xml/images/znurt.jpg?view=markup |title=(gentoo) Contents of /xml/images/znurt.jpg |publisher=Gentoo.org |date=2002-11-09 |access-date=2011-08-02 |archive-date=September 29, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110929112713/http://sources.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/gentoo/xml/images/znurt.jpg?view=markup |url-status=dead}}</ref>
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