fne8w2ah@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agoThe GNU Project turns 40 this monthwww.theregister.comexternal-linkmessage-square6fedilinkarrow-up1204arrow-down12cross-posted to: [email protected]
arrow-up1202arrow-down1external-linkThe GNU Project turns 40 this monthwww.theregister.comfne8w2ah@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square6fedilinkcross-posted to: [email protected]
minus-squarescorpious@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up18·1 year agoIs it true that the name comes from the recursive, “Gnu’s Not Unix”?
minus-squareRobotToaster@mander.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·1 year agoYes. Yet people still refer to GNU/Linux as a unix system.
minus-squareDrDeadCrash@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·1 year agoThat’s mostly because of certain standards followed by all the *nix systems, and it started with Unix…
minus-squarefubo@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·1 year agoReally it’s a POSIX-compliant system.
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.
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