The Anubis Mascot

The eagle-eyed will have noted that we use the GNU/Linux penguin as our mascot. There are two reasons for this.
  1. The philosophy of the Open Source movement is that all information should be freely shared and exchanged. This does not mean that one loses control or credit for one's work, but that you don't prevent others from building on your work. This is, of course, the basic philosophy of scientific research as well.
  2. I use the GNU/Linux OS for the embedded computer in each Anubis station. I use GNU/Linux in the field-laptops that are used for installation and monitoring of the Anubis stations. I use GNU/Linux in my workstation in the lab as a file server and number cruncher.
  3. Finally, the fact that the Linux logo is a penguin was the clincher for this Antarctic project.
For what it is worth, the source code for the Anubis software, the schematics and PCB layouts for the power system, and the specifications for the hardware are all freely available under the GPL.
Sridhar Anandakrishnan
Last modified: Thu Aug 19 12:14:22 CDT 1999