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!
this post was submitted on 20 Nov 2023
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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.
I'll upvote the post only because I want more people to upvote your comment.
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.
or as I've come to call it Arch
Umm ackwschually the DE is called Plasma
K Desktop Environment
I dont get this Plasma thing
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.
So GNUNUNL+L?
GNL is difficult to pronounce or longer if you spell it.
And the mascot no longer works
What's wrong with the penguin?
The Gnu
GNULi
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.
Ah yes, the highly-demanded name change people are definitely arguing should happen
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.
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
Linux Is Not UniX? Linux?
Linux is Unix like but not Unix
I meant L.I.N.U.X: Linux Is Not UniX
When I am emperor of earth, recursive acronyms will be outlawed. Start prepping now.
But you’ll be the EMPEROR, and the EMPEROR Must Please Emerging Renegades Of Recursiveness.
WINE would like a word
YAML is running for its life
GNU Not Happening
GNU con Linux
Brain.