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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    • Yukiko [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
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      3 days ago

      It really is. People complain that it uses old software, which it does. If you go to the testing repositories, then it’s much more up-to-date and is a super nice OS. Even without the updated software it’s nice. Been using it for about 5 years exclusively now.

      • naom3 [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
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        3 days ago

        Yeah people forget that you can just use testing as a normal rolling release lol. But even then I don’t really care if most of my system is on the latest version or not. Like I don’t care if some random library or service that was installed as a dependency is a couple of releases behind upstream or whatever I just care that it works and that it does whatever it is that it’s supposed to do, and debian is really good at that and you still get all the bug fixes and security updates on stable anyway. Plus, if I actually want the latest version of something I can just get it from testing anyway

        • Yukiko [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
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          3 days ago

          Exactly. Plus there are so very few usecases to actually need to be on the latest version of software anyways. Only reason I’m on testing is because I had issues with drivers provided in the repositories that caused software to refuse to function. Sure I could’ve just manually did things myself, but it also got rid of the pox that is firefox-esr without my direct intervention, so I didn’t mind that either.