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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  • eldavi
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    16 days ago

    i had a “duh” moment when you shared that; my identifiable trans colleagues did seem almost common before i switched to working from home and i didn’t realize that until now how well represented they are on the development side of the tech field, similar to the foreign born latinos.

    it’s a FASCINATING phenomenon for me as a developer since i did IT for 15 years before becoming one and my experiences from my other identities (eg chicano, indigenous, cis-gay) have given me eye opening experiences into how WILDLY different the software development side of the tech industry is compared to the operations side in my country.