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Re:Rocky Linux: A CentOS replacement by the CentOS founder by na85 on Wednesday December 16, 2020 @03:50PM (#25448439)
I'm so tired of this drivel.

It's called Linux because GNU is awful at naming things. The name "Gahnoo" is too awkward to pronounce and "Gahnoo plus Linux" is too long.

People shorten names for convenience. Deal with it or come up with a better name than GNU.

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Re:Rocky Linux: A CentOS replacement by the CentOS founder by boomboomsubban on Wednesday December 16, 2020 @04:00PM (#25448570)
First, obvious troll is obvious. Second, complaining that the "GNU" part is awkward to pronounce when it's a regular English word unlike Linux amuses me. Linus Unix to Linux will forever haunt free software.
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Re:Rocky Linux: A CentOS replacement by the CentOS founder by _hyn3 on Wednesday December 16, 2020 @04:58PM (#25449359)
Right, infamous copypasta... forgive the pedantry, but the English word "gnu" (referring to the mammal) is pronounced "noo", while the non-English word "GNU" is pronounced "gah-noo"[0], as OP correctly pointed out.

0. https://www.gnu.org/gnu/pronunciation.en.html

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Re:Rocky Linux: A CentOS replacement by the CentOS founder by boomboomsubban on Thursday December 17, 2020 @12:07AM (#25452714)
My mistake, my memory of learning about gnus was so long ago it has been distorted by GNU.
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Re:Rocky Linux: A CentOS replacement by the CentOS founder by throwawaygulf on Wednesday December 16, 2020 @04:10PM (#25448705)
Whoosh!

https://stallman-copypasta.github.io/

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