On 1/15/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Jakub Steiner</b> <<a href="mailto:jimmac@novell.com">jimmac@novell.com</a>> wrote:<div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Start-here is pretty much a placeholder no distribution will really<br>ship. You will see distro or vendor branding in place of start-here most<br>of the time.</blockquote><div><br> That's always bothered me when I see it, for some reason.  Maybe it's the corporate logos themselves, maybe it's the fact that the distro doesn't own the software that I access through the menu, or maybe it's just the fact that I think of my box as "a Linux system" not "an Ubuntu system" or "a Fedora system."  In any event, my preference is to replace it.  On my personal machines, I like to replace the vendor-supplied start logo with a penguin (not the official Tux, one I put together to look good small and a little less cartoonish).<br> </div></div><br>Sure, not everybody uses Linux.  But it's a more fitting start logo than anything else for those of us who are running Linux, and without it, you could go your entire life running Linux without ever actually seeing a representation of the mascot as part of the system.<br clear="all"><br> Maybe that's just me.<br> <br> Nate<br>-- <br>nathan.p.willis<br><a href="mailto:nwillis@glyphography.com">nwillis@glyphography.com</a><br>aim/ym/gtalk:n8willis<br><a href="http://flickr.com/photos/willis">flickr.com/photos/willis</a>