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The GNU Project turns 40 this month (www.theregister.com)
submitted 2 years ago by fne8w2ah@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] scorpious@lemmy.world 17 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Is it true that the name comes from the recursive, “Gnu’s Not Unix”?

[–] RobotToaster@mander.xyz 8 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Yes.

Yet people still refer to GNU/Linux as a unix system.

[–] DrDeadCrash@programming.dev 4 points 2 years ago

That's mostly because of certain standards followed by all the *nix systems, and it started with Unix..

[–] fubo@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Really it's a POSIX-compliant system.

[–] eestileib@sh.itjust.works 14 points 2 years ago

I've gotten a TON of value out of GPL'd and Gnu projects.

Here's to another 40.

[–] Deebster@lemmyrs.org 5 points 2 years ago

The article mentions that Hurd is also a recursive acronym, but doesn't go into any more details.

After looking it up on Wikipedia, I see why not:

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.