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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 https://

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 https://acronyms.thefreedictionary.com/LINUX

rejschaap 6y ago
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 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux#Naming
hkt 6y ago
Backronym?
noisem4ker 6y ago
It's a recursive acronym.
laumars 6y ago
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.