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[-] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 28 points 10 months ago

I.......I lost track of what just happened. G stands for......something, I imagine.

[-] ghen@sh.itjust.works 25 points 10 months ago
[-] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago

Oh god. Is this going to be like how you pronounce "gif"?

Is it gif?

Or is it gif?

[-] Strawberry@lemmy.blahaj.zone 18 points 10 months ago

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.

[-] AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net 16 points 10 months ago
[-] Jankatarch@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Ah a cursed dialect of lisp that's inversed.

[-] apftwb@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago

The gnu in gnu stands for Wildebeest

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