weastie@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 4 days agoIronically, people making fun of the "Gnu/Linux" copypasta is probably one of the main ways people know what Gnu ismessage-squaremessage-square50fedilinkarrow-up1240arrow-down110
arrow-up1230arrow-down1message-squareIronically, people making fun of the "Gnu/Linux" copypasta is probably one of the main ways people know what Gnu isweastie@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 4 days agomessage-square50fedilink
minus-squareBoomer Humor Doomergod@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up29·4 days agoI know GNU because it’s a recursive acronym.
minus-squareAbouBenAdhem@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·edit-24 days agoNo one can really know what GNU stands for unless they can perform an infinite recursion in constant time.
minus-squareLastYearsIrritant@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·4 days agoGNU isn’t entirely infinite though. After unpacking GNU is Not Unix 10^45 times, you actually find out what the final G is for.
minus-squareBootLoop@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up7·3 days agoI actually wrote a script to figure out what the last G stands for. The last G stsnds for “RangeError: Maximum call stack size exceeded”. Pretty weird.
minus-squareCocodapuf@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·2 days agoThis is why it really should have been called “NNU”, that would work perfectly.
minus-squareBootLoop@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up7·4 days agoI like using the GNU’s Not Unix Image Manipulation Program ToolKit when I make GUIs.
minus-squareHadriscus@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up5·4 days agoAh, so a GUI is in fact a GNU User Interface ?
minus-squareBootLoop@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up2·3 days agoI think we should call them Gnuser Interfaces and shorten it to GI. Gnome systems only.
minus-squareyetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up2·edit-23 days agoHave you ever used the GNU’s Not Unix Image Manipulation Program ToolKit America Online Instant Messenger?
minus-squareThat Weird Vegan@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·4 days agoyeah, but what does GNU stand for?
minus-squareBootLoop@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up3·edit-23 days agoGNU’s Not Unix. See my comment here to see what the GNU part stands for: https://sh.itjust.works/comment/18917548
minus-squarenagaram@startrek.websitelinkfedilinkarrow-up3·3 days agoFrom your user name to the link joke. This is a real master piece
minus-squareThat Weird Vegan@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 days agodeleted by creator
I know GNU because it’s a recursive acronym.
The real Linux fork bomb
No one can really know what GNU stands for unless they can perform an infinite recursion in constant time.
GNU isn’t entirely infinite though. After unpacking GNU is Not Unix 10^45 times, you actually find out what the final G is for.
I actually wrote a script to figure out what the last G stands for. The last G stsnds for “RangeError: Maximum call stack size exceeded”. Pretty weird.
NaN’s not UNIX
This is why it really should have been called “NNU”, that would work perfectly.
I like using the GNU’s Not Unix Image Manipulation Program ToolKit when I make GUIs.
Ah, so a GUI is in fact a GNU User Interface ?
I think we should call them Gnuser Interfaces and shorten it to GI. Gnome systems only.
Have you ever used the GNU’s Not Unix Image Manipulation Program ToolKit America Online Instant Messenger?
*GNU is my pepper
yeah, but what does GNU stand for?
GNU’s Not Unix.
See my comment here to see what the GNU part stands for: https://sh.itjust.works/comment/18917548
From your user name to the link joke.
This is a real master piece
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