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The Playful Etymology of Common CS Words (harnekgulati.substack.com)
2 points by HakuG 1389 days ago
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When Linux was in its infancy, and Internationalization i18n didn't exist yet, I worked on a project to provide French names/errors/etc. The product was called LigneX (Line X) which sounds a lot like the name "Linux" with an accent.

I don't speak French, but I thought that was clever nonetheless.

“…source, the completely different nomenclature of Linux Distros like Fedora or Solaris”. Ouch.