I really need these lore dumps for linux stuff because I will be highly confused at the names. Still can’t get over when I learned that GIMP is not just a perverted or derogatory name, but GNU Image Manipulation Program (and I had to look up what GNU meant too… which was named after a song about a gnu, aka wildebeest)
i do love the personality of FOSS naming, but please give me a short tidbit about the etymology in the about page, or else I’ll be forced to do an hour long Wikipedia deep dive because I simply can’t help myself!
yakuake, for “yet another kuake”, from “kuake”, which is a kde-ification of “quake”. because the console in quake dropped down like that.
Damn, I posted the Quake screenshot just because it makes me think of that. And TIL it actually comes from there.
Programmers think like other programmers I guess.
That makes a lot more sense now. Love me a project with a fun story behind it
I really need these lore dumps for linux stuff because I will be highly confused at the names. Still can’t get over when I learned that GIMP is not just a perverted or derogatory name, but GNU Image Manipulation Program (and I had to look up what GNU meant too… which was named after a song about a gnu, aka wildebeest)
i do love the personality of FOSS naming, but please give me a short tidbit about the etymology in the about page, or else I’ll be forced to do an hour long Wikipedia deep dive because I simply can’t help myself!