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    [Image description: A fox-woman wearing a dress the color of the Debian logo is being pulled by the sleeves on one side by a gnu man and on the other side bu a penguin. She has an annoyed expression.
    The gnu man says: "Debian, why do you offer a non-free firmware repo?
    You're so close to being one of the few fully free distros...
    Don't you believe in free software?"

    The penguin says: "Why isn't the necessary firmware
    installed by default ?
    It's such a pain when you install
    and it can't connect to network...
    You're so close to being practical,
    Debian !" ]

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    [–] redcalcium@lemmy.institute 6 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    Debian is a fox? Is it due to the naruto-ish logo?

    [–] loaExMachina@sh.itjust.works 32 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    Biblically accurate Debian is a sentient twirly magenta spiral. Jk, I don't know, I hadn't thought of Naruto, tho it's a good reasoning. At first I just figured Debian should be a sophisticated looking lady with an old-ish style, both because it's an old distro and because it has what I find to be the most elegant logo. I thought of using animal features because I'd done it before with Arch in a previous meme, and that was due to the whole "femboy" cliche. I wondered if I should go for a cat again or some other cute animal, and I remembered there was a fox girl named Xenia which had once been proposed as a Linux mascot; so I went with that.

    [–] pelya@lemmy.world 15 points 11 months ago

    I would expect some Toy Story character, but it seems that we really only have the pink swirl as a mascot. Thank Lord it does not have the eyes as Clippy does

    [–] kuneho@lemmy.world 0 points 11 months ago

    At first I just figured Debian should be a sophisticated looking lady with an old-ish style, both because it’s an old distro and because it has what I find to be the most elegant logo.

    Finally, a representation of a linux distro not as a supergay/transgender femboy fox/cat/loli/shota.

    [–] oo1@lemmings.world 2 points 11 months ago

    looks more like a snail to me. probably something to do with speed of updates. jk