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Re:Pi-hole – A black hole for Internet advertisements by pjc50 on Monday March 13, 2017 @10:53AM (#13858260)
From Br. Eng. "shut your piehole" (slang), meaning "shut up".
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Re:Pi-hole – A black hole for Internet advertisements by Gaelan on Monday March 13, 2017 @11:18AM (#13858492)
American English as well, though I did miss the joke.
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Re:Pi-hole – A black hole for Internet advertisements by philplckthun on Monday March 13, 2017 @11:18AM (#13858497)
yep, the name does explain itself, but "pi" and the logo are hinting at raspberry pi
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Re:Pi-hole – A black hole for Internet advertisements by Zekio on Monday March 13, 2017 @12:04PM (#13858998)
It might just be it was initially made for Raspberry pi and then expanded over time
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Re:Pi-hole – A black hole for Internet advertisements by promofaux on Monday March 13, 2017 @12:35PM (#13859381)
Exactly that!

The name has just kind of stuck, even though you can in fact run it on most linux distros (We officially support Ubuntu/Debian based distros, but there is limited support for Centos, and even forks for Arch, and Docker!), on a whole host of different hardware.

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Re:Pi-hole – A black hole for Internet advertisements by vocatus_gate on Monday March 13, 2017 @12:58PM (#13859705)
This is the correct answer.
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