>>53410305
The Android user land is called bionic though

Because GNU is a really fucking stupid name.

>>53410417
Not as stupid as "Windows" or "OS X"

>>53410445
>Windows
Not really relevant but it sticks with you

>OS X
Operating system 10, simple and to the point. most people don't get this but it sticks with you

>GNU
>recursive acronym
>acronym states the obvious
>irrelevant
>literally pronounced guhnoo

>>53410497
>Not really relevant but it sticks with you
It's the most bland name ever. They named it windows because the OS has windows in it. I'm really surprised they didn't rename win 8 to "Tiles"

>Operating system 10, simple and to the point. most people don't get this but it sticks with you
It's still a shit name. You don't go out buying "Toyota Car 2016"

>GNU
Named after an animal but with a twist and with different pronunciation to prevent confusion. I don't see what the problem here is.

>>53410542
>"Toyota Car 2016"
I'm sure if they named it TC 2016 people would buy it.

>I don't see what the problem here is.
>recursive acronym
>acronym states the obvious
>irrelevant
>literally pronounced guhnoo

>>53410409
It's not, bionic is only a part of the user land, just like glibc is part of GNU

>>53410558
>I'm sure if they named it TC 2016 people would buy it.
this tbqh

>>53410558
>recursive acronym
>literally pronounced guhnoo
Okay, what is wrong with any of that?

>acronym states the obvious
>irrelevant
So it's relevant by stating the obvious but is also irrelevant? I don't get what you're trying to say.

>>53410593
>What operating system do you use, anon?

>I use Windows
>I use OSX
>I use BSD
>I use GuhNoo

>G'noo? That sounds funny anon, what does GNU mean?
>Guhnoo's not UNIX...

>>53410680
>>53410558
Recursive acronyms are funny
More things and companies should use them.

Because out of all the Linux based operating systems I discuss Linux is consistently in all of them, GNU is not.

>>53410305
Because people are retarded and now that it's established, it's to hard to go back and do it right.
GNU/Linux was a mistake. RMS should not have given so much creds to a kernel, by changing the name just because it's getting bundled with the GNU operating system.

>>53410305
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>>53411431
He also messed up by offering crummy names. Like other people said, GNU is not a good name, and it doesn't combine with any other names well either. They should have canned both "GNU" and "Linux" and made something for the combination of the two.

>>53412026
>GNU is not a good name
Why not?

>>53412321
It's an acronym, not as easy to remember or sound out as a real or even made up word. The official pronunciation is "guh noo" which doesn't match the gnu animal which is their logo. If it was pronounced like the animal, "gnu" would sound like "new" so there'd be confusion there as well. And backronyms are only amusing to computer people, anybody else it's just extra shit to explain.

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>>53410542
>Named after an animal but with a twist and with different pronunciation to prevent confusion
but the pronunciation and meaning of the acronym only ADD to the confusion.

Any of the distros named after real words, words from other languages, or even made up words, are easier to spell and remember. Mint and Arch are top-tier names IMO.

>>53411708
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Year of the GNU/Android desktop WHEN?

>>53411708
>>53412497

/^. *(.) *(.).*\n+\1\n+\2/im;stub:no

isn't regex amazing?

Linux is simply a better name.

>>53412517
Busybox/Linux

Linux tb.h
when it switches to clang/LLVM (since GPLv3+ gcc is shit tier for business), it will be even more based

>>53412721
>it
What or who will switch?