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Linux-tan

CANON

Linux-tan is the personification of Linux as a whole, already named on the Vault by October 2004 and kept on OSC's canon list with Linspire/Lindows. Unlike Me-tan, she does not have one frozen outfit across all English sources.

Wikipedia's most copied look is Tux-derived: hime-cut hair, penguin-bill helmet, GNU horns, gear teeth, spear with bootloader ribbons, KDE/GNOME marks on clothes. That is a later composite, useful as a description, not a 2003 Vault screenshot. Juzo-kun's distro wallpapers are the usual English-language expansion pack: Debian, Ubuntu, Arch, and friends as their own girls rather than hats on Linux-tan.

Tux the penguin remains Linux's official mascot. Linux-tan is fan gijinka. Do not file them as the same character.

Linux-tan
Historical OSC archive. Art remains with the original artists.
Linux C-chan
Historical OSC archive. Art remains with the original artists.
Arch-tan (Commons)
Wikimedia Commons.

See also

Mac-tanMac-tanMac-tan is at least two casts: Futaba's generic Mac rival of 95-tan, and +Nijiura+'s OS X catgirls named after big cats.XP-tanList of canon OS-tansWhat OSC meant by canon, which designs this wiki stamps CANON, and what we refuse to freeze.

Sources

  1. OS-tan — Wikipedia, 2026. Secondary overview. Mixes Futaba fan characters with regional Microsoft campaigns. Use as a map, not as character canon.
  2. List of Canon OS-tans — OS-Tan Collections Wiki, 2010.
  3. Introduction — OS-Tan Collections Wiki, 2010. English community wiki. Pages often carry outdated-information banners. Character art stays with creators.