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arrow-up1203arrow-down1external-linkThe GNU Project turns 40 this monthwww.theregister.comfne8w2ah@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 11 months agomessage-square7fedilinkcross-posted to: hackernews@derp.foo
minus-squarescorpious@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up18·11 months agoIs it true that the name comes from the recursive, “Gnu’s Not Unix”?
minus-squareRobotToasterlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·11 months agoYes. Yet people still refer to GNU/Linux as a unix system.
minus-squareDrDeadCrash@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·11 months agoThat’s mostly because of certain standards followed by all the *nix systems, and it started with Unix…
minus-squarefubo@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·11 months agoReally it’s a POSIX-compliant system.
minus-squarelloram239@feddit.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·11 months agoFun fact: RMS came up with the name POSIX.
Is it true that the name comes from the recursive, “Gnu’s Not Unix”?
Yes.
Yet people still refer to GNU/Linux as a unix system.
That’s mostly because of certain standards followed by all the *nix systems, and it started with Unix…
Really it’s a POSIX-compliant system.
Fun fact: RMS came up with the name POSIX.