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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is it true that the name comes from the recursive, “Gnu’s Not Unix”?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yes.

Yet people still refer to GNU/Linux as a unix system.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

That's mostly because of certain standards followed by all the *nix systems, and it started with Unix..

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Really it's a POSIX-compliant system.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Fun fact: RMS came up with the name POSIX.