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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    Whew im at the theater to see smile 2 and had to step out for a lil bit which is a first for me

    spoilers!

    Its had some great scares but theres an element of the main character being a mentally ill former drug user being tormented by an evil entity into rapidly losing her mind in a very, very public fashion. It got too much for me when she went to talk at a banquet for underprivileged youth. I can hear her screaming in there!

    Anyway, back to it. The first one was good and im enjoying this one so far

    Edit: unitentional slur, sorry!