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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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