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The GNU Project turns 40 this month (www.theregister.com)
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[–] scorpious@lemmy.world 18 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] RobotToaster@mander.xyz 9 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Yes.

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

[–] DrDeadCrash@programming.dev 5 points 2 years ago

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

[–] fubo@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Really it's a POSIX-compliant system.