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I still dont get thing bit about the name "GNU"
Every site says "GNU stands for 'Gnu Not Unix' recursively." What is this, some sort of inside joke?


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Quote from The GNU Project
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The name GNU was chosen following a hacker tradition, as a recursive acronym for "GNU's Not Unix."
Read the history that Richard Stallman has put in the link. It should answer all your questions.
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I think that Stallman borrowed the concept from Doug Comer's xinu. xinu is much cooler. Not only does it mean "xinu is not unix", but it is unix spelled backwards.
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nah, HURD is the best because it is mutually recursive. I can't remember what it actually is though...
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from somewhere on GNU.org :

" `Hurd' stands for `Hird of Unix-Replacing Daemons'. And, then, `Hird' stands for `Hurd of Interfaces Representing Depth'. We have here, to my knowledge, the first software to be named by a pair of mutually recursive acronyms. "
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That's the one, good work soldier.
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ok i get it now. all these name are some big computer joke. laugh laugh
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