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A comment on GNU Pies – Program Invocation and Execution Supervisor.

Re:GNU Pies – Program Invocation and Execution Supervisor by arjie on Sunday February 15, 2026 @04:44PM (#47027908)
One release every 4 years. So this is like monit or systemd-supervisord and so on, a process manager. I have to say the thing I most enjoy about it is the fact that it's got the classic GNU trend of "here's an obviously pronounceable spelling; let's say it a different way".
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Re:GNU Pies – Program Invocation and Execution Supervisor by stackghost on Sunday February 15, 2026 @04:49PM (#47027965)
The only thing missing is a recursive acronym e.g. Pies: Pies Is Experimental Software or something equally cringe like Hurd
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Re:GNU Pies – Program Invocation and Execution Supervisor by stevekemp on Sunday February 15, 2026 @05:00PM (#47028081)
Pies is eshewing systemd?
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Re:GNU Pies – Program Invocation and Execution Supervisor by calvinmorrison on Sunday February 15, 2026 @04:59PM (#47028065)
how about "Active Development" without any progress in 3 decades
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Re:GNU Pies – Program Invocation and Execution Supervisor by elric on Monday February 16, 2026 @03:09AM (#47032272)
It's how you would pronounce it if it were Latin. In which case it would mean "feet". Maybe that's not what inspired the name.
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Re:GNU Pies – Program Invocation and Execution Supervisor by dash2 on Monday February 16, 2026 @04:27AM (#47032840)
I think the Latin for feet would be "pedes", singular "pes".
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Re:GNU Pies – Program Invocation and Execution Supervisor by hulitu on Tuesday February 17, 2026 @02:07AM (#47044565)
Romanes eunt domum.
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Re:GNU Pies – Program Invocation and Execution Supervisor by kaszanka on Monday February 16, 2026 @04:33AM (#47032884)
Also in Polish, which would mean "dog".
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Re:GNU Pies – Program Invocation and Execution Supervisor by brendyn on Tuesday February 17, 2026 @01:21PM (#47050967)
I've never heard of this program but I heard the voice in my head pronounce it is p-yes immediately. Apparently I've internalised GNU English to totally native level.
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