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Warm Up Your Voting Fingers and Choose Your Favorite FakeLinusTorvalds

If you've been paying attention on Twitter and Identi.ca, lately then you've no doubt had a few laughs over the hilarious and sometimes slightly (okay, really) offbeat status updates from FakeLinusTorvalds. As Kristin wrote recently, four different people have gone incognito to impersonate the real Linus Torvalds -- with his blessing, of course -- to poke some good natured fun at one of the community's most respected people.

Now it's time to decide who has done the best masquerade job before their true identities are revealed at LinuxCon later this month. Voting starts today so get ready to cast yours here and help decide who gets to take home a Silver Penguin Award. You'll even get a chance to win free admission to the conference just by voting for your favorite FLT.

When the Linux Foundation's Jim Zemlin first mentioned the appearance of Fake Linus Torvalds, he said, "...start guessing the real identities of these four fakes. I suspect a few identities to be scooped before we get to Portland. I challenge you to be the spoiler!" Do you have any ideas about who's hiding behind the online masks? Give us your best guesses in the comments.

Flickr image courtesy of Leo Reynolds

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by Richard Carmody on Sep. 09, 2009

I'm still trying to figure out who the real Slim Shady is!

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