The name GNU stands for "GNU's Not Unix." The whole point of developing the GNU system is that it is not Unix. Written by Richard Stallman, Contributor June 22, 2003 at 5:00 p.m. PT ...

Its name is a recursive acronym, “Gnu’s Not UNIX“, which states categorically its position with respect to the Bell Labs original, but provides many software components which, while they ...

By 1983, this vision had crystallized into a mission: to create a free Unix-like operating system. Thus, GNU, which stands for "GNU's Not Unix," was born. As RMS wrote at the time, ...

The recursive acronym, GNU, stands for “GNU’s Not Unix”, which means that Stallman and the FSF answer “no” to the question of the relation of the GNU/Linux operating system to Unix.

ANC secretary-general, Fikile Mbalula, has responded to the Democratic Alliance’s threats of exiting the Government of ...

Several readers took me to task for referring to Linux, BSD, and OS X as Unix. Lighten up, folks — I’m on your side. No one feels more protective of Unix’s heritage than I. Unix has a rich ...

GNU = Gnu’s Not UNIX (meaning is doesn’t use any of the UNIX codebase). While Linux is very UNIX-like, it is not UNIX. Second, to say that Linux could not stand on its own with UNIX is false.

The GNU OS, however, still needed a kernel. It was provided, perhaps advertently, by a Finnish computer science student Linus Torvalds who in 1991 began working on his own free version of Unix for ...

For decades, software developers have been slipping jokes into their work. One of the most enduring, clever, and geekily satisfying inside jokes has been hiding in plain sight: the recursive acronym.

GNU, confusingly, stands for "GNU's Not UNIX." This project is responsible for the UNIX-like GNU OS. Stallman also launched the related Free Software Foundation (FSF) ...

A Unix OS meanwhile is the entirety of the tools and applications (‘userland’) that accompany it, something which is provided for Linux-based distributions most commonly from the GNU (‘GNU ...

The GNU OS, however, still needed a kernel. It was provided, perhaps advertently, by a Finnish computer science student Linus Torvalds who in 1991 began working on his own free version of Unix for ...