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.


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  • belligerentkitten [they/them, it/its]M
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    2 hours ago

    ty, i think that is a pretty excellent explanation of why these fucking people can't get their heads around it.

    we are gonna try and go to munches eventually, but it's not really a replacement for that space because both me and partner are disabled, live in the middle of nowhere, and my partner doesn't speak spanish yet. but maybe something online will turn up.