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    [–] smeg@feddit.uk 47 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    GNU wasn't mistaken for Unix though, it was made as a piece-by-piece foss replacement for all the proprietary Unix tools. Everything about this meme is wrong!

    [–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 24 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

    Absolutely. Gnu was made to be specifically different from Unix which was becoming locked down by AT&T copyrights. Gnu wasn't Unix, and therefore still isn't.

    [–] platypus_plumba@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

    I'll upvote the post only because I want more people to upvote your comment.

    [–] Pantherina@feddit.de 31 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    I use GNU is not Unix is not Linux + Linux in a distributed form called Fedora using a display protocol called wayland on a Desktop called KDE btw.

    [–] metaStatic@kbin.social 9 points 1 year ago

    or as I've come to call it Arch

    [–] backhdlp@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    Umm ackwschually the DE is called Plasma

    [–] Pantherina@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago

    K Desktop Environment

    I dont get this Plasma thing

    [–] Klear@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

    So GNUNUNL+L?

    [–] Moshpirit@lemmy.world 30 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    GNL is difficult to pronounce or longer if you spell it.

    [–] RmDebArc_5@lemmy.ml 26 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    And the mascot no longer works

    [–] BeardedGingerWonder@feddit.uk 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    What's wrong with the penguin?

    [–] RmDebArc_5@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago
    [–] fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    Ginnel

    Unfotunately, might not mean much to 99.925% of the world.

    I'm not sure what the mascot would be. Perhaps a fence, dog poo, lager can or discarded mattress.

    [–] blackernel@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

    More semantically than some other answers, GNU software is generally on Linux computers, so if GNL was Not Linux, than it would be even more confusing for it to be on a Linux computer.

    I think if you need to make the destiction, GNU+Linux is probably the best option for the whole software set and kernel included and if you want to talk about the operating system, I think naming your distribution and following it up with "a distribution of Linux" would be the most accurate, if you are in a situation where accuracy counts.

    I use Arch, btw.

    [–] backhdlp@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 1 year ago

    I use Arch, a distribution of Linux, btw

    [–] JackLSauce@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    Ah yes, the highly-demanded name change people are definitely arguing should happen

    [–] spudwart@spudwart.com 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

    Okay but for more clarity sake. LINUX IS NOT UNIX. I don’t care how many certifications or random university teachers mix the two up, they’re wrong.

    Linux has only one bit of history with Unix and that is the fact it was made because there was no easily accessible Unix source code for Linus and other students to use. Linus made a Unix-like os. Hence Lin-ux. But it’s not Unix. It doesn’t use any Unix source code. It’s not based on System V or any other official Unix version. Linux is Unix in name only. Its POSIX compliant and has a few POSIX certified distros, but it’s not Unix.

    This fact is what made it so favorable to devs worldwide. Unix having his history as a proprietary operating system with a confusing license situation where AT&T would seemingly go sue happy at random made Unix scary and unfavorable.

    Linux was built from the ground up. It had no such history. If Linux were Unix this couldn’t possibly have been true, and it certainly wouldn’t have gone on to take over the server and smart phone markets.

    Linux is not Unix.

    Unix is not Linux.

    MacOS is not Linux.

    BSD is not Linux.

    [–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

    People say Mac is BSD, haven’t heard it called Linux

    It’s referred to as Unix for the conventions it implements not from being built out of

    [–] Perroboc@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)
    [–] RmDebArc_5@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    Linux is Unix like but not Unix

    [–] Perroboc@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    I meant L.I.N.U.X: Linux Is Not UniX

    [–] sarmale@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 year ago
    [–] monk@lemmy.unboiled.info 5 points 1 year ago

    GNU Not Happening

    [–] kool_newt@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

    GNU con Linux

    [–] Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

    When I am emperor of earth, recursive acronyms will be outlawed. Start prepping now.

    [–] voodooattack@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago

    But you’ll be the EMPEROR, and the EMPEROR Must Please Emerging Renegades Of Recursiveness.

    [–] Arthur_Leywin@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

    YAML is running for its life

    [–] Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 year ago

    YAML will be granted a grace period as a recursive acronym, but as punishment they must remove the questionable contraction and will henceforth be YANML.

    [–] CapeWearingAeroplane@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
    [–] Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 year ago

    WINE is the biggest offender. They shall be forced to forever de-acronym!