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Deebster ,
@Deebster@lemmyrs.org avatar

The article mentions that Hurd is also a recursive acronym, but doesn't go into any more details.

After looking it up on Wikipedia, I see why not:

It's time [to] explain the meaning of "Hurd". "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.

scorpious ,

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

RobotToaster ,
@RobotToaster@mander.xyz avatar

Yes.

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

DrDeadCrash ,

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

fubo ,

Really it’s a POSIX-compliant system.

lloram239 ,

Fun fact: RMS came up with the name POSIX.

eestileib ,

I’ve gotten a TON of value out of GPL’d and Gnu projects.

Here’s to another 40.

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