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minus-squarescorpious@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up16·1 year agoIs it true that the name comes from the recursive, “Gnu’s Not Unix”?
minus-squareRobotToaster@mander.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·1 year agoYes. Yet people still refer to GNU/Linux as a unix system.
minus-squarefubo@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·1 year agoReally it’s a POSIX-compliant system.
minus-squareDrDeadCrash@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·1 year agoThat’s mostly because of certain standards followed by all the *nix systems, and it started with Unix…
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.
Really it’s a POSIX-compliant system.
That’s mostly because of certain standards followed by all the *nix systems, and it started with Unix…