Reminds me of an old joke about how everything in KDE has a k and it's very annoyink and irrtitatink bekause they have less laks user interface kuidelines than GNOME. (I haven't checked, they've probably vastly improved since then)
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When I met rms, I said “gnoperating system” lmao
Gnus and gnomes can break my bones?
nobbes. they breeak your nobbes
Opportunity missed in not calling it GnObject.
Banger title
Things to do on Christmas:
- Unwrap gifts ❌
- Unwrap acronyms ✔️
I.......I lost track of what just happened. G stands for......something, I imagine.
The gnu in gnu stands for Wildebeest
(((gnu)imp)tk)lib)object)
Well it kind of stands for nothing, because at the center of this onion is GNU, which is recursive. It stands for "GNU's Not UNIX", so the G in GNU stands for GNU.
Jraphics
Oh god. Is this going to be like how you pronounce "gif"?
Is it gif?
Or is it gif?
Does the g in gspot also stand for gnu?
Believe it or not, yes.
it actually stands for garam masala
and the g in gnu stands for gnu
So if I'm getting it right, gobject is short for gnugnu(...)gnuimptklibobject.
It is front recursive so it's really "...is not unix is not unix is not unix is not unix image manipulation program tool kit object" and that first g doesn't exist.
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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.
Noot noot mother fucker
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?
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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
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Oh so what's g in grep and git stand for?
Grep is g/re/p. Global, Regular Expression, Print.
Global, and Linus.
Is it pronounced gnu or jnu?
Depends what language you pronounce it in.
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A topic with a a lot of gnuances.
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?
It originally did not. Then it did for a time. Now it does not.
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
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As a former Windows user, it still is taking a long time to wrap my head around all this new terminology, functions, and systems.
This doesn't help. XD
unless you absolutely must, don't think about it
The W in Windows stands for worse, so good for you.
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