On the name of LInux

In case anyone is like "oh interesting, didn't know that" then keeps scrolling: it's not true.
- i started reading with open mind, by second paragraph the troll smell started hitting my nostrils
- Sure it is. Linus Torvalds was the 51st person in his lineage to be be named Nus, so following Finnish tradition his parents put the roman numeral prefix in front of his name. It's quite a coincidence that he also uses an operating system that follows the same convention!
- Of course. Obviously linux is the 55^{th version of nix – LVnix, *not* the 51}th.
- I don't think anyone on linuxmemes community though it was true. Maybe someone coming from /all

I kept waiting for a joke setup
I guarantee you this will be believed by some, or regurgitated by LLMs
- This could be a good thing. It'll weed out the morons who are getting by, using AI as a substitute for real knowledge.

This is entirely horseshit
- horsesh.itjust.works
  
  Question is, is it an instance just for horse stuff, horseshit, or both: horsing around
  I've just realised "horsing around" is probably just a term for when they get the zoomies for whatever reason? (and being anxious, I guess that happens a bit?)

nix 101 would have been CInix anyway...
Good nerds know their roman numerals
- Then we'd have debates about classical (kinix) versys ecclesiastical (chinix) pronunciation, just like GIF vs JIF.
- So it was called CITRIX, SERVVS TERMINALIS and lived happily ever after.

I've literally studied the creation of Unix yet they lied so confidently I was still questioning if I had just missed this somehow

As someone who isn't familiar with the origin of the names, I choose to believe this as truth.
- Unix is the single user version of Multics, an operating system for that could handle multiple users simultaneously. The multi user stuff didn't actually work great, but the other tech it had was great, so they made a single user version. The name was made to sound like it was Multics without the "Multi".
  Unix became a proprietary, paid operating system. Linus Torvalds took a Unix course at university and became interested in operating systems. He didn't like that rules prevented him from actually modifying the Unix system even if he knew how. So he made his own free and open source version of the Unix operating system and named it after himself, because of his "big ego" as he puts it.
  Now this is where I have to interject for a moment because, actually, Linus only wrote the kernel of the operating system. He didn't write any of the common programs and tools. For that he used GNU software, which are all free and open source themselves.

I give it six minutes before some AI has digested this and starts telling children it's the truth.

Not true at all. Unix was originally spelled UNICS, and it was a clone of MULTICS.
MINIX is a contraction of "Mini-UNIX".
Linux was named by combining the author's name (Linus) with the suffix -ux, which was a popular convention among operating systems at the time.

Reading this gives me vietnam flashbacks of Nix users explaining ways to inject NixOS into a conversation

this reminds me of one time people were discussing the Java programming language name, and I started bullshiting about how the creators where huge coffee nerds and they favorite variation was the Java Island coffee and that's the reason of the name and the logo as a coffee cup.
Little I knew, that was kinda the real reason.