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Then I guess the OS part is redundant, since thr nix already implies an OS.
by xboxnolifes 10mo ago
Then I guess the OS part is redundant, since thr nix already implies an OS.
- bheadmaster 10mo agoNo, actually Nix is a package manager/system configuration tool. NixOS uses Nix as part of its image.
- xboxnolifes 10mo agoNo, nix clearly means a Unix-like OS and any other interpretation is wrong, as the context of this thread would suggest.
- bigyabai 10mo agohttps://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/homonym https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/homonym
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- ZenoArrow 10mo agoSo your argument is the first usage of a word gets exclusive rights to it? Firstly, that's not how human languages work. Secondly, this would invalidate the Unix claim to "nix" as it's been a word for hundreds of years prior to Unix being invented.
- johannes1234321 10mo agoIt is, but in IT context the association was strong, while Unixes decline and most of the systems with derived naming are historic. But anybody with a background in sysadmin for more than 10 years probably would still have the association. In ten years Linux will probably the only one remaining with the ux-naming (and MacOS X with the single X, which also serves as ten, following MacOS 9)
- 0x696C6961 10mo agoMy guy, most people don't even know what nix (the package manager) is.
- ZenoArrow 10mo agoTime to get familiar then.
- rendaw 10mo agoLearnixOS doesn't seem to have anything to do with NixOS, afaict?
- saghm 10mo agoI feel like if I saw something just called "learn unix", I'd expect it to be teaching me how to use it generically, not implement it. Adding "OS" makes it clear to me that it's a dedicated OS for the purpose of learning (although it still wasn't clear to me that the goal was implement it so if anything I'd argue that the title is missing context, but the name of the OS isn't redundant).