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Re:20 years ago, Apple bought NeXT by alkonaut on Wednesday December 21, 2016 @03:11AM (#13227569)
I never heard that one before. I thought Linux was just a conflation of "Linus" and "Unix", while GNU was a recursive abbreviation of "GNU is Not Unix".
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Re:20 years ago, Apple bought NeXT by mmjaa on Wednesday December 21, 2016 @06:19AM (#13228292)
Linux means "Linus's Unix" and the name came from the sysadmin at funet.fi who had to give the kernel a home subdirectory when Linus asked him to host the kernel on an FTP site ..
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