Re:GNU/Linux (was: emcee) -- NO SCD content...

Steve Wyrick

Message 44581 · 8 Mar 2006 18:47:27 · Fixed-width font · Whole thread

On Wed, 8 Mar 2006 12:35:28 -0500
"Alexandre Rafalovitch" <xxxxxxxx@xxxxx.xxx> wrote:

> P.s. TLA (three-letter-acronym) was at one point a self referential
> joke, the same way Linux operating system could be interpreted as
> Linux Is Not UniX.....
>

You COULD interpret it that way but I don't believe that was the intent. I
understand Linux was named that because it was LINus Torvald's interpretation
of the UniX kernel. On the other hand, Richard Stallman's original system GNU,
which Linux works with, IS self-referential, and I suspect what you were
thinking of: GNU stands for GNU's Not Unix! -Steve
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Steve Wyrick - Concord, California