How could they choose Tux as the Linux mascot when they had this as a competing entry?

https://web.archive.org/web/20000817070058/http://www.early.com/~emackey/linux/

I kinda wonder how Firefox would have turned out if Linux had gone with this character.

hail_stan said:
I kinda wonder how Firefox would have turned out if Linux had gone with this character.

Probably a 'lil somethin' like this:
https://e621.net/posts/13535

hail_stan said:
I kinda wonder how Firefox would have turned out if Linux had gone with this character.

Basically firefox would be called Firebird (because it was the first name of it, the "firefox" name was introduced in 2004)