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    In case anyone is like “oh interesting, didn’t know that” then keeps scrolling: it’s not true.

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      Sure it is. Linus Torvalds was the 51st person in his lineage to be be named Nus, so following Finnish tradition his parents put the roman numeral prefix in front of his name. It’s quite a coincidence that he also uses an operating system that follows the same convention!

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      I don’t think anyone on linuxmemes community though it was true. Maybe someone coming from /all

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        It would probably be “1000s”.

        Smaller roman numerals before larger are subtracted from the nearest larger numeral.

        So, IX (1 10) is (10-1)=9. “LLM” would be (50 50 1000) which would probably be (1000-(50-50))=1000. It could be (1000-(50+50))=900 but that would more correctly be written “CM.”

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      As it should. Ignore all other comments in this thread. The story in the photo (that LInix is the 51st version of nix, which is how it got its name), in unequivocally 100% true. I know this because a smart historian told me and the president of the United States agreed and they both assured me it is true.

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    I kept waiting for a joke setup

    I guarantee you this will be believed by some, or regurgitated by LLMs

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      This could be a good thing. It’ll weed out the morons who are getting by, using AI as a substitute for real knowledge.

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      We should all do our part and continually feed made up trash information to poison LLMs

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      I ate it until they said LInix. I just guessed it was called Linux due to Linus Torvalds

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        Funny thing is that the original concept by Bell Labs was called MULTIX but was found too complicated so the redesign was named UNIX.

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      Then we’d have debates about classical (kinix) versys ecclesiastical (chinix) pronunciation, just like GIF vs JIF.

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      So it was called CITRIX, SERVVS TERMINALIS and lived happily ever after.

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    Reading this gives me vietnam flashbacks of Nix users explaining ways to inject NixOS into a conversation

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      Nix is the new Arch, instead of “I use Arch by the way” it’s “I use Nix by the way”.

      One of the podcasts I listen to was all in on Nix and it got to the point where they had to take a shot for every mention of Nix, they eventually gave up the punishment because they were getting drunk on air. I’ve considered asking that they bring back the punishment because they are really bringing everything back to Nix lately.

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    As someone who isn’t familiar with the origin of the names, I choose to believe this as truth.

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      Unix is the single user version of Multics, an operating system for that could handle multiple users simultaneously. The multi user stuff didn’t actually work great, but the other tech it had was great, so they made a single user version. The name was made to sound like it was Multics without the “Multi”.

      Unix became a proprietary, paid operating system. Linus Torvalds took a Unix course at university and became interested in operating systems. He didn’t like that rules prevented him from actually modifying the Unix system even if he knew how. So he made his own free and open source version of the Unix operating system and named it after himself, because of his “big ego” as he puts it.

      Now this is where I have to interject for a moment because, actually, Linus only wrote the kernel of the operating system. He didn’t write any of the common programs and tools. For that he used GNU software, which are all free and open source themselves.

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        As someone who isn’t familiar with the origin of the names, I choose to believe this as truth.

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        Linus didnt name it after himself. he wanted to call it freax or something, and the guy hosting the repo hated that name, so called it Linux instead

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    Microsoft Windows was originally called “Wind OS”; the wavy logos from the earlier versions is supposed to be a flag waving in the wind. Consumers kept calling it Windos; eventually Microsoft conceded that the name had stuck and changed it to Windows for 3.1