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    It does Sound stupid (lemmy.ml)
    submitted 11 months ago by RmDebArc_5@lemmy.ml to c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world
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    [–] smeg@feddit.uk 42 points 11 months 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 22 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months 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 11 months ago

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

    [–] Pantherina@feddit.de 30 points 11 months 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 8 points 11 months ago

    or as I've come to call it Arch

    [–] backhdlp@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

    Umm ackwschually the DE is called Plasma

    [–] Pantherina@feddit.de 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

    K Desktop Environment

    I dont get this Plasma thing

    [–] callyral@pawb.social 3 points 11 months ago

    It used to be K Desktop Environment, but it's called Plasma since KDE became the organization behind KDE Plasma. This is because they make things other than the desktop environment, like apps such as Krita or Kdenlive, which aren't DE specific.

    [–] Klear@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

    So GNUNUNL+L?

    [–] Moshpirit@lemmy.world 21 points 11 months ago (4 children)

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

    [–] RmDebArc_5@lemmy.ml 19 points 11 months ago (1 children)

    And the mascot no longer works

    [–] BeardedGingerWonder@feddit.uk 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

    What's wrong with the penguin?

    [–] RmDebArc_5@lemmy.ml 5 points 11 months ago

    The Gnu

    [–] fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months 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.

    [–] JackLSauce@lemmy.world 14 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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

    [–] spudwart@spudwart.com 12 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months 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 11 months 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 11 months ago (1 children)

    Linux Is Not UniX? Linux?

    [–] RmDebArc_5@lemmy.ml 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

    Linux is Unix like but not Unix

    [–] Perroboc@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

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

    [–] Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (3 children)

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

    [–] voodooattack@lemmy.world 17 points 11 months ago

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

    [–] CapeWearingAeroplane@sopuli.xyz 2 points 11 months ago

    WINE would like a word

    [–] Arthur_Leywin@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

    YAML is running for its life

    [–] monk@lemmy.unboiled.info 5 points 11 months ago

    GNU Not Happening

    [–] kool_newt@lemm.ee 5 points 11 months ago

    GNU con Linux

    [–] sarmale@lemmy.zip 4 points 11 months ago

    Brain.