XINU OS – Xinu Is Not Unix

Re:XINU OS – Xinu Is Not Unix by z1mm32m4n on Sunday November 29, 2015 @04:16AM (#10644202)

See now this is my kind of acronym. Things like "gnu's not unix" are too arbitrary; you can replace the 'g' with anything and still get an acronym that works. XINU is nice, elegant, and unambiguous.

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Re:XINU OS – Xinu Is Not Unix by mtgx on Sunday November 29, 2015 @04:56AM (#10644260)

It's also UNIX written in reverse.

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Re:XINU OS – Xinu Is Not Unix by bcook on Sunday November 29, 2015 @05:23AM (#10644300)

I completely missed that. Now my OCD's thirst has been slaked. Thanks.

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Re:XINU OS – Xinu Is Not Unix by mongol on Sunday November 29, 2015 @04:36AM (#10644236)

I don't see the difference..?

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Re:XINU OS – Xinu Is Not Unix by credit_guy on Sunday November 29, 2015 @06:37AM (#10644398)

Maybe he means that Xinu is Unix backwards.

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Re:XINU OS – Xinu Is Not Unix by krick on Sunday November 29, 2015 @05:20AM (#10644294)

He is pointing out that leaving out "is" in "GNU is not Unix" is pretty lousy way to make an acronym (if that could be called acronym at all), as "is" is as much word as "not" or "Unix" are and omitting it is arbitrary. It isn't a preposition or something.

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Re:XINU OS – Xinu Is Not Unix by nailer on Sunday November 29, 2015 @05:45AM (#10644322)

Removing one and two letter words from acronyms is commonplace.

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Re:XINU OS – Xinu Is Not Unix by krick on Sunday November 29, 2015 @07:11AM (#10644427)

Yeah, you mean prepositions, which "is" isn't. I don't really care, btw, just clarifying what parent (probably) tried to say.

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Re:XINU OS – Xinu Is Not Unix by nailer on Monday November 30, 2015 @08:58AM (#10649355)

> Yeah, you mean prepositions

No I don't. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acronym#Numerals_and_constitue... and also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etiquette

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Re:XINU OS – Xinu Is Not Unix by such_a_casual on Sunday November 29, 2015 @10:39AM (#10644827)

It's a recursive acronym that is also UNIX backwards:

XINU

Not

Unix

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Re:XINU OS – Xinu Is Not Unix by colordrops on Sunday November 29, 2015 @05:05AM (#10644272)

Hmm, they look like identical forms of wordplay, with GNU having the added advantage of being an actual word.

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Re:XINU OS – Xinu Is Not Unix by nmikhailov on Sunday November 29, 2015 @04:27AM (#10644222)

Same with WINE - Wine Is Not an Emulator

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Re:XINU OS – Xinu Is Not Unix by swsieber on Sunday November 29, 2015 @10:58AM (#10644887)

How about: WINE - Wine is no emulator?

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Re:XINU OS – Xinu Is Not Unix by asdfaoeu on Sunday November 29, 2015 @04:57AM (#10644261)

GINX is not UNIX?

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Re:XINU OS – Xinu Is Not Unix by aceperry on Sunday November 29, 2015 @05:51AM (#10644331)

Genuino is not UNIX

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