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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

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TIL Debian releases are named after Toy Story characters (wiki.debian.org)

submitted 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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The codenames for every major Debian release are named after characters from Pixar's Toy Story franchise. Debian's unstable release is fittingly named after Sid, an unstable character from the Toy Story movies.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

GNU

Which stands for 'GNU is not Unix'. Also 'less' (which is more). Pine is(was) Program for Internet News and Email and the FOSS fork is 'Alpine' or 'Alternatively Licensed Program for Internet News and Email'. And there's a ton more of wordplays and other more or less fun stuff on how/why things are named like they are.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago

WINE Is Not an Emulator

[–] atzanteol 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Pine also competed with "elm". And it used the "pico" editor which was replaced by "nano"...

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

And pico is short from 'Pine Composer'. Nano was originally called 'tip' (This Is not Pico), but that name was already used by another program. And 'elm' besides being a tree is a short from 'Electronic Mail'.

[–] atzanteol 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Developers love nothing more than a pun. 🙂

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

I think that's just their code...

[–] atzanteol 1 points 3 weeks ago

Developers love nothing more than a pun. 🙂