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.
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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.
gnuplestiltskin
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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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Is it pronounced gnu or jnu?
Depends what language you pronounce it in.
Are you gnu here?
Jnu enough to stoke an ancient flame war for my personal entertainment.
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A topic with a a lot of gnuances.
Oh so what's g in grep and git stand for?
Grep is g/re/p. Global, Regular Expression, Print.
Global, and Linus.
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?
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