Well it looks like Linux has finally managed a first in something big except that it isn’t the kind of first you would want to have. The car sponsored by Linux was the first to crash in the Indianapolis 500, which actually means the Linux car finishes last. This is of course a big disappointment to Linuz fans and Linux marketers after having gone to great lengths with the Tux 500 campaign in order to gain funding for the car.

The Tux Marketing campaign itself wasn’t a huge success raising only a total of $18,308.90 by May 26, 2007. Sure it was enough to be able to enter a Linux-sponsored car in the Indianapolis 500 but it obviously wasn’t enough to get one of the best cars around. Even their plea to make the marketing scene in Linux a community effort didn’t yield as much results as they wanted (the donation meter indicated $350,000 as their target figure).

Although it seems that Linux’s run in with cars lead to a crashing failure geeks all over the world know that as an operating system it is not one to crash unlike Windows, which should have been the one to sponsor the all blue Tux Car thus giving the “blue screen of death” an altogether new meaning when it comes to crashing. Since this isn’t the case though I suggest that Linux stick to marketing campaigns that are more geek related and avoid scaring the penguin to death