The GNU Project turns 40 this month

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• scorpious@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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

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  • RobotToaster@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yes.

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

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    • DrDeadCrash@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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

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    • fubo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Really it’s a POSIX-compliant system.

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• eestileib@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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

  Here’s to another 40.

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• Deebster@lemmyrs.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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