Free software has some glib naming conventions
2025-12-17 13:59 UTC
Replies (36)
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@lauha@lemmy.world 2026-05-11 09:37
the g in gobject stands for glib, and the g in glib stands for gtk, and the g in gtk stands for gimp, however the g in gimp stands for gnu, so really the g in glib stands for gnu, but you shouldn’t confuse it with gnulib, which is developed by the gnu project, who shouldn’t be confused as the developers of glib, which is the gnome project So gobject is gnuimptklibobject
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@dontsayaword@piefed.social 2025-12-17 14:13
and the g in gnu stands for gnu
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@zqwzzle@lemmy.ca 2025-12-17 14:20
Is it pronounced gnu or jnu?
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@kubica@fedia.io 2025-12-17 15:49
A topic with a a lot of gnuances.
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@myotheraccount@lemmy.world 2025-12-17 20:59
Does the g in gspot also stand for gnu?
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@Masterkraft0r@discuss.tchncs.de 2025-12-17 18:11
and the g in gnu also stands for gnu
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@grue@lemmy.world 2025-12-17 14:19
gnusnotuniximagemanipulationtoolkitlibraryobject
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@DupaCycki@lemmy.world 2025-12-17 16:52
In case you were wondering the 'w' in 'wine' stands for 'wine', and the full acronym is 'Wine Is Not an Emulator'. What do you think the 'w' in 'Wine Is Not an Emulator' stands for?
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@velindora@lemmy.cafe 2025-12-17 17:13
I wish we knew some new gnu jokes.
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@raman_klogius@ani.social 2025-12-18 01:48
Things to do on Christmas: - Unwrap gifts ❌ - Unwrap acronyms ✔️
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@Kolanaki@pawb.social 2025-12-17 16:33
I remember a time when almost every category of tool had something named "Yet Another [Thing]" because there were already so many options to choose from when they decided to make their own.
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@Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 2025-12-18 01:55
I.......I lost track of what just happened. G stands for......something, I imagine.
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@Vinylraupe@lemmy.zip 2025-12-18 08:34
Gnus and gnomes can break my bones?
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@TheJesusaurus@sh.itjust.works 2025-12-17 14:25
Never thought about it and I'm gonna go back to not thinking about it
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@ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 2025-12-18 08:51
Opportunity missed in not calling it `GnObject`.
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@Phoenix3875@lemmy.world 2025-12-18 13:50
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@Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 2025-12-17 14:25
And this really exposes a major challenge with FOSS. Names have *meaning* - it's why Office is called Office. This gnu naming isn't much of an issue, because this is stuff only technical folks handle. But if we want end-users to embrace things, we need meaningful names - meaningful to *them*. Whenever I tell my friends or family to install Jellyfin so they can access my media, the look on their face says it all. MediaMonkey - alright, I get it (yea, not FOSS) Plex? OK, if someone then says "think MultiPlex Theaters", you get it. (Also not FOSS) Jellyfin? What is that? Jam on a sharkfin? These work really well: Resilio SYNC (Yeah, not FOSS, but the name makes sense) SyncThing (FOSS) FolderSync (not FOSS) Notice a trend here? I have a *printed* spreadsheet for all the software I use - if I haven't touched a service for a couple months, I'll forget the meaningless name.
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@db2@lemmy.world 2025-12-17 14:27
Also glibc
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@Jayjader@jlai.lu 2025-12-18 04:56
Banger title
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@rockerface@lemmy.cafe 2025-12-17 14:19
You've been gnomed
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@Shanmugha@lemmy.world 2025-12-17 21:55
gobject [Gobject]
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@Kojichan@lemmy.world 2025-12-17 20:58
As a former Windows user, it still is taking a long time to wrap my head around all this new terminology, functions, and systems. This doesn't help. XD
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@calcopiritus@lemmy.world 2025-12-17 14:20
Not to be confused with glibc. Where the g does actually stand for gnu.
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@buttnugget@lemmy.world 2025-12-18 14:30
When I met rms, I said “gnoperating system” lmao
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@RickyRigatoni@retrolemmy.com 2025-12-17 17:59
I thought it was called gnome because little gnomes go into your computer to draw the windows
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@Jean_Mich_Much@jlai.lu 2025-12-17 15:03
So, what does the g in musl stand for ? Wait...
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@ninja@lemmy.world 2025-12-17 21:08
gnuimptklibobject
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@bitcrafter@programming.dev 2025-12-17 16:44
At least it's Not Unix.
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@art@lemmy.world 2025-12-19 07:02
The G is silent.
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@FooBarrington@lemmy.world 2025-12-17 14:17
The g in gobject stands for "Go run away as fast as you can and you may survive"
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@umbraroze@slrpnk.net 2025-12-18 19:31
Reminds me of an old joke about how everything in KDE has a k and it's very annoyink and irrtitatink bekause they have less laks user interface kuidelines than GNOME. (I haven't checked, they've probably vastly improved since then)
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@Sturgist@lemmy.ca 2025-12-17 21:46
😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
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@killeronthecorner@lemmy.world 2025-12-17 15:33
It's pretty gsimple
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@captainlezbian@lemmy.world 2025-12-20 01:37
Oh gnu, where the g stands for gnu
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@GissaMittJobb@lemmy.ml 2025-12-17 16:00
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6n3pFFPSlW4
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@blockheadjt@sh.itjust.works 2025-12-19 07:08
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