Xenia, the fox girl mascot of Linux, was first designed in 1996 by Alan Mackey. She was meant to be an alternative to Tux, the official mascot.

She had fallen into obscurity, but was noticed by a Twitter user in 2019 and was redrawn as a fox girl. But as it turned out, Xenia was originally meant to be male! The original creator, Alan, was cool with this, saying “It matches the transition of a lot of the smartest, nerdiest Linux users I know” and “And sure, you made her trans!”.

So now we have a trans Linux mascot. And I think that’s neat.


Join our public Matrix server! https://matrix.to/#/#tracha:chapo.chat


As a reminder, be sure to properly give content warnings and put sensitive subjects behind proper spoiler tags. It’s for the mental health of not just your comrades, but yourself as well.

Here is a screenshot of where to find the spoiler button.

  • Thallo [love/loves]@hexbear.net
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    3
    ·
    6 hours ago

    I could’ve written that first paragraph!

    I think the carousel has slowed down for me, though aubrey-smug

    Think I might be ready to get off soon

    • AshenWolf [any, null/void]@hexbear.netM
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      3
      ·
      5 hours ago

      The journey has to end somewhere, the ride has to run out of energy eventually. Wherever you end up, I’m sure you’ll feel at home (and also probably enlightened). I honestly don’t know if I’m getting off yet, like I said, I feel like I post something of this vein every other week. Idk though, it feels like I’m reaching the end as well. If this is really the end, it was a fun ride catgirl-salute