Oh gnu, where the g stands for gnu
The G is silent.
and the g in gnu stands for gnu
Fun fact: The K in GNU stands for Kernel.
Did make me actually laugh.
KNURD
gotem
Then what does the g in gnu stand for?
you’re not gonna believe this…
I’ve got g’news for you…
g’news and g’day to you as well, g’lady!
I think this is sarcasm, but just in case it isn’t… GNU is a recursive acronym for “GNU’s Not Unix”.
My guess for why they chose the letter g is that gnu can be phonetically the same as just nu, but keeps people from interpreting the name of the project as a dumb spelling of “new”.
Gary
as in the inventor of chess, THE Gary Chess?
rival of George Checkers?
All the gnus
Yeah, they missed the best part.
GNU stands for GNU’s Not Unix, which is a recursive acronym. And, when pronounced properly (like the animal) the G is silent. The entire Linux ecosystem has words that start with G based on an acronym where G essentially comes from nowhere, and isn’t actually pronounced.
Well, I dont wanna start a debate, but the official website of GNU indicate that the “g” in GNU isn’t silent.
So it depends on whether you want to pronounce it “properly” or as it was intended.
The name “GNU” is a recursive acronym for “GNU’s Not Unix!”; it is pronounced as one syllable with a hard g, like “grew” but with the letter n instead of r.
gnew?
Well, I dont wanna start a debate, but the official website of GNU indicate that the “g” in GNU isn’t silent.
Yeah, but that’s wrong. It’s named after the animal, and the animal is pronounced without a G sound. I’m not going to mangle the pronunciation because they screwed up.
Noot noot mother fucker
Gnoot gnoot
I can’t believe they didn’t put this one in there!
Gnus and gnomes can break my bones?
nobbes. they breeak your nobbes
Does the g in gspot also stand for gnu?
Believe it or not, yes.
That is why large companies don’t want you to find where it is. The application of proprietary condoms to GNU licensed body parts would taint them with gpl license.
When I met rms, I said “gnoperating system” lmao
Opportunity missed in not calling it
GnObject.Is it pronounced gnu or jnu?
Are you gnu here?
Jnu enough to stoke an ancient flame war for my personal entertainment.
Yer such a wildebeest!
What can I say, I’m a candidate for !dull_mens_club@lemmy.world
They’ll be back in a jiff.
Depends what language you pronounce it in.
Unironic answer, the “g” is pronounced, but obviously like the g in give or great, not like j.
The G is silent
It is in jnu.
and the g in gnu also stands for gnu
and the g in gnu also stands for gnu
thank you
i expected this sooner xD
Yeah - supposed to be the pinnacle
I…I lost track of what just happened. G stands for…something, I imagine.
The gnu in gnu stands for Wildebeest
Jraphics
Oh god. Is this going to be like how you pronounce “gif”?
Is it gif?
Or is it gif?
A topic with a a lot of gnuances.
manblinking.gif
In case you were wondering the ‘w’ in ‘wine’ stands for ‘wine’, and the full acronym is ‘Wine Is Not an Emulator’. What do you think the ‘w’ in ‘Wine Is Not an Emulator’ stands for?
As a younger teen trying to get starcraft running on my linux box, my parents were definitely upset when they saw me browsing “winehq”. They thought I was trying to get booze shipped to our house :D
I once tried to play “PHP” in Scrabble and argued that it should be infinite points.
The opponent didn’t agree.
It’s personal home page and I don’t care if they retconed it
It originally did not. Then it did for a time. Now it does not.
And Linux Is Not Unix.
TikZ ist kein Zeichenprogramm
idk let’s ask yaml
gnusnotuniximagemanipulationtoolkitlibraryobject
Just a regular German word. Please keep walking, nothing to see here.
