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    Wine acronym (lemmy.ca)
    submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by ColdWater@lemmy.ca to c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world
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    [–] don@lemm.ee 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

    GNU Hurd.

    It's time [to] explain the meaning of "Hurd". "Hurd" stands for "Hird of Unix-Replacing Daemons". And, then, "Hird" stands for "Hurd of Interfaces Representing Depth". We have here, to my knowledge, the first software to be named by a pair of mutually recursive acronyms.

    – Thomas (then Michael) Bushnell

    [–] Zwiebel@feddit.org 1 points 11 months ago

    And then they slapped the GNU's not UNIX infront for good measure

    [–] lemmywinksthegerbilking@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 10 months ago

    I've always thought of this

    [–] superkret@feddit.org 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

    EMACS makes all coding suck
    VIM is marvelous

    [–] AVincentInSpace@pawb.social 1 points 11 months ago

    Eight Megabytes And Constantly Swapping

    [–] JetpackJackson@feddit.org 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

    GNU's Not Unix! moment

    [–] Hildegarde@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

    GNU's not Unix image manipulation program toolkit.

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

    RecursionError: Maximum recursion depth exceeded image manipulation toolkit

    [–] deathmetal27@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

    GTK = GNU's Not Unix Image Manipulation Program Tool Kit

    [–] AceFuzzLord@lemm.ee 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

    My personal favorite acronym like that definitely goes to AROS (Amiga Research Operating System) that if I remember correctly had to - for legal reasons - change the name. Rather than come up with a completely new name, went with AROS Research Operating System.

    Edit: name change was apparently to avoid any trademark issues with the Amiga name.

    [–] stupidcasey@lemmy.world 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

    Windows should emulate Linux so it can run wine on its arm chips.

    [–] Wilzax@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

    WSL 3 wishlist starts here

    [–] scottmeme@sh.itjust.works 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

    I refuse to use 2 because it breaks all my shit.

    OG WSL 1 for me, or just Linux lol

    [–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

    Qemu if you can get it. It is a little hard to learn but it can use Hyper-V acceleration

    [–] 30p87@feddit.org 1 points 11 months ago

    It's harder to set up windows without giving microsoft the right to let 72 virgins rape your ass than to use QEMU.

    [–] TriflingToad@lemmy.world 0 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    my favorite fact about Wine is that they could've named it Pine, Dine, Fine, Line, etc

    [–] 4am@lemm.ee 1 points 11 months ago

    It’s a cheeky play on “WINdows Emulator” as well as “WINE’s Is Not an Emulator”, but I think for both legal (trademark) and logistical (it really isn’t an emulator) reasons, you’ll never officially see that bit sanctioned

    [–] Evil_incarnate@lemm.ee 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

    Pine was already taken by an email reader. One of the early ascii email readers was called elm, for ELectronic Mail. Pine was made after elm and it stands for Pine Is Not Elm.

    [–] skulblaka@sh.itjust.works 1 points 11 months ago

    I'm starting to get the impression that most software older than me is defined more by what it isn't than by what it is.