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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  • Luna [she/her, sae/saer]M
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    6 hours ago

    How many of you would join me for Webfishing later, assuming I actually manage to get my work done? Feel like it would be fun to run a server with you all catgirl-happy

    • rtstragedy [fae/faer, she/her]
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      5 hours ago

      i would but tonight is not great for me as I have made other plans! have some time over the weekend i think tho :3

      • Luna [she/her, sae/saer]M
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        5 hours ago

        doggirl-thumbsup

        (Maybe this is something I should actually put some more effort into organizing and coordinating. I'm happy to see that you would be interested at all catgirl-happy)