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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'.

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.
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On 3/2/26 22:54, rbowman wrote:

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'.

No authority but I say GNU which I pronounce with a silent g. It sounds a lot like new but most people using it in context seem to follow what I
said
when we had in person LUG meetings. GNU is an acronym of course of the descriptive phrase, "GNU is Not Unix".

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.

I have not ever watched afaik a Lunduke anything.

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.

Another good reason to avoid the use of Canonical products.
If I wanted to play with new stuff I would use the Redox system
which is writing their kernel in Rust. I am so over that sort of
exertion.

bliss - "Nearly any fool can use a Linux Computer..."
After all here I am...

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On 3/3/26 02:23, Bobbie Sellers wrote:>

On 3/2/26 22:54, rbowman wrote:

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'.

No authority but I say GNU which I pronounce with a silent g. It
sounds
a lot like new but most people using it in context seem to follow what I said
when we had in person LUG meetings. GNU is an acronym of course of the descriptive phrase, "GNU is Not Unix".

Ummm ... the 'GNU' stuff AIN'T BAD. Not gonna
complain much.

There IS a case for 'native' compilers ... but
the GNU substitutes are pretty good.

STILL looking for a Modula-3 compiler that
will actually install/work PROPERLY. Can't
find one. The Quebec one generates endless
errors ... NOT gonna try to track them down.
Too old now for that shit.

GNU does M2, but not the 'improved' M3.

CAN get GNU 'Ada' ... but that's only for
serious serious masochists :-)

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On 03/03/2026 07:23, Bobbie Sellers wrote:

No authority but I say GNU which I pronounce with a silent g. It sounds
a lot like new but most people using it in context seem to follow what I said
when we had in person LUG meetings. GNU is an acronym of course of the descriptive phrase, "GNU is Not Unix".

If always silently said ger-noo.

But I cant remember ever saying it out loud or hearing it said. Not even
in Africa, where it lives

Which is perhaps a reflection on how important it is in computing.
--
The biggest threat to humanity comes from socialism, which has utterly diverted our attention away from what really matters to our existential survival, to indulging in navel gazing and faux moral investigations
into what the world ought to be, whilst we fail utterly to deal with
what it actually is.


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The Natural Philosopher wrote:

If always silently said ger-noo.

But I cant remember ever saying it out loud or hearing it said

likewise and likewise.
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