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Rather a tradition to call a malloc by the initials of the implementer: Jason Evans malloc (jemalloc), Poul-Henning Kamp malloc (phkmalloc), Doug Lea (dlmalloc)

Rather a tradition to call a malloc by the initials of the implementer: Jason Evans malloc (jemalloc), Poul-Henning Kamp malloc (phkmalloc), Doug Lea (dlmalloc). P.S. I also wondered whether systemd had any cultural reference to Système D aka Système Débrouillard, but Pottering does not seem to engage in word play on other occasions, so probably not.

tefkah 8d ago
damn i always thought it was a french thing, this is blowing my mind
- eliaspro 8d ago
  "Yes, it is written systemd, not system D or System D, or even SystemD. And it isn't system d either. Why? Because it's a system daemon, and under Unix/Linux those are in lower case, and get suffixed with a lower case d." Source: https://brand.systemd.io/ https://brand.systemd.io/
  - NewJazz 8d ago
    I love how autocorrect thinks I mean to type systems, not systemd. I mean they are one key away on qwerty and systemd is definitely not a word.
- fizzbuzzbarbazz 8d ago
  you were right, check siblings of your comment.
justincormack 8d ago
It does > Systemd was launched in April 2010; it adopts various ideas from previous init systems and combines them with a uniform configuration and administration interface. Systemd operates as a background service (daemon) and controls important system configuration tasks including hardware initialisation and the starting of server processes. The developers thought that its name is suitably reminiscent of the French term "système D", an expression that relates to "thinking on your feet" and describes high-speed technical problem-solving abilities such as those displayed by TV action hero MacGyver. https://web.archive.org/web/20121014173559/http://www.h-online.com/open/features/Control-Centre-The-systemd-Linux-init-system-1565543.html https://web.archive.org/web/20121014173559/http://www.h-onli...

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Rather a tradition to call a malloc by the initials of the implementer: Jason Evans malloc (jemalloc), Poul-Henning Kamp malloc (phkmalloc), Doug Lea (dlmalloc)

by sam_lowry_ 8d ago

tefkah 8d ago
damn i always thought it was a french thing, this is blowing my mind
- eliaspro 8d ago
  "Yes, it is written systemd, not system D or System D, or even SystemD. And it isn't system d either. Why? Because it's a system daemon, and under Unix/Linux those are in lower case, and get suffixed with a lower case d." Source: https://brand.systemd.io/ https://brand.systemd.io/
  - NewJazz 8d ago
    I love how autocorrect thinks I mean to type systems, not systemd. I mean they are one key away on qwerty and systemd is definitely not a word.
- fizzbuzzbarbazz 8d ago
  you were right, check siblings of your comment.
justincormack 8d ago
It does > Systemd was launched in April 2010; it adopts various ideas from previous init systems and combines them with a uniform configuration and administration interface. Systemd operates as a background service (daemon) and controls important system configuration tasks including hardware initialisation and the starting of server processes. The developers thought that its name is suitably reminiscent of the French term "système D", an expression that relates to "thinking on your feet" and describes high-speed technical problem-solving abilities such as those displayed by TV action hero MacGyver. https://web.archive.org/web/20121014173559/http://www.h-online.com/open/features/Control-Centre-The-systemd-Linux-init-system-1565543.html https://web.archive.org/web/20121014173559/http://www.h-onli...