Comment on The GNU Project turns 40 this month
scorpious@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Is it true that the name comes from the recursive, “Gnu’s Not Unix”?
Comment on The GNU Project turns 40 this month
scorpious@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Is it true that the name comes from the recursive, “Gnu’s Not Unix”?
RobotToaster@mander.xyz 1 year ago
Yes.
Yet people still refer to GNU/Linux as a unix system.
DrDeadCrash@programming.dev 1 year ago
That’s mostly because of certain standards followed by all the *nix systems, and it started with Unix…
fubo@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Really it’s a POSIX-compliant system.
lloram239@feddit.de 1 year ago
Fun fact: RMS came up with the name POSIX.