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Re:Technical reasons to choose FreeBSD over GNU/Linux by hollander on Monday April 13, 2020 @05:34AM (#22854333)
Isn't Linux an anagram (no not an anagram but I can't come up with the right word) for Linux Is Not UNix?

https://acronyms.thefreedictionary.com/LINUX

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Re:Technical reasons to choose FreeBSD over GNU/Linux by rejschaap on Monday April 13, 2020 @05:43AM (#22854371)
You might be thinking of GNU, which is a recursive acronym that stands for "GNU's Not Unix".

As far as I understand it we got the name Linux because Linus Torvalds was quite bad at naming things. :)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux#Naming

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Re:Technical reasons to choose FreeBSD over GNU/Linux by laumars on Monday April 13, 2020 @03:28PM (#22859145)
No, that’s GNU with the “not UNIX” recursive acronym. Linux was named by the guy who first hosted Linus’ OS and was an amalgamation of “Linus” and “UNIX” (“nix” was a popular suffix for platforms of that type back in those days so “Linux” was a play on the authors name in the style of that naming convention).

If I recall correctly, Linus originally wanted his OS to be called “Freenix” because he thought naming it after himself was a little vein.

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Re:Technical reasons to choose FreeBSD over GNU/Linux by noisem4ker on Monday April 13, 2020 @10:44AM (#22856270)
It's a recursive acronym.
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Re:Technical reasons to choose FreeBSD over GNU/Linux by hkt on Monday April 13, 2020 @07:20AM (#22854821)
Backronym?
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