Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!nntp.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Chris Ahlstrom Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: GNU Date: Tue, 3 Mar 2026 14:57:25 -0500 Organization: None Lines: 34 Message-ID: <10o7ef5$2abth$3@dont-email.me> References: Reply-To: OFeem1987@teleworm.us MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Tue, 03 Mar 2026 19:57:26 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="871676febc53e8a844e666e44a233769"; logging-data="2437041"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX192Az3dsgBYsV+yo/QzPHkC" User-Agent: slrn/1.0.3 (Linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:w8D5sE7LMD47f648L6MZErK0UY8= X-User-Agent: Microsoft Outl00k, Usenet K00k Editions X-Mutt: The most widely-used MUA X-Face: 63n<76,LYJQ2m#'5YL#.T95xqyPiG`ffIP70tN+j"(&@6(4l\7uL)2+/-r0)/9SjZ`qw= Njn mr93Xrerx}aQG-Ap5IHn"xe;`5:pp"$RH>Kx_ngWw%c\+6qSg!q"41n2[.N/;Pu6q8?+Poz~e A9? $6_R7cm.l!s8]yfv7x+-FYQ|/k X-Slrn: Why use anything else? Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:82358 rbowman wrote this screed in ALL-CAPS: > Odd question at this point but how do you say 'GNU'? I was watching a > Lunduke video where he was bitching about Ubuntu's apparent attempt to > push Rust and was reading from a Ubuntu VP's statement. The first > encounter with GNU he definitely said G-N-U but later times it still > sounded like he was saying the letters. At one point he said F-A-Q but > later said 'fak'. Anyway, from AI: The GNU project name is officially pronounced as one syllable, “ g’noo” (/ɡnuː/), which sounds like "grew" but with an ‘n’ instead of an ‘r’. It is a recursive acronym for “GNU’s Not Unix!” and is intentionally pronounced with a hard 'g' sound to distinguish it from the silent-g pronunciation of the animal. > Is that a Lunduke thing? I've always said it as in 'if you knew what the > gnu knew' with sort of a tongue flip on the G, same as with GNOME > although sometimes I almost drop the G completely. > > As far as the video, he did have a point. Apparently they want to rewrite > ls and other tools that have worked well for decades with Rust, while > admitting some of the fringe uses may break. The VP also told the > developers to stop using Python and use Rust, sternly worded memo to > follow. He (the VP) got management-itis, I think. -- Lemma: All horses are the same color.