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Regards Eion MacDonald (eionmac@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) Tel. +44 (0) 1925762873 Unencrypted electronic mail is not secure and may not be authentic. If you have any doubts as to the contents please telephone to confirm. Rob Beard wrote: > Hi folks, > > My other half was doing a crossword, one of the questions was a 3 letter > word and the clue was wildebeest. The answer was GNU. I thought, hang > on, GNU means GNU's Not Unix, and it's the foundation for a complete > operating system, what has that got to do with wildebeest? > > I did a Google search for GNU + wildebeest and found that a GNU is > actually a type of wildebeest. That'll explain the GNU logo then (and > GNU Herd). You can see what I'm on about here: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wildebeest > > I'm not sure if any of you folks knew this. I always used to think, how > did they come up with GNU's Not Unix, I mean how did they think of GNU? > > As you can probably guess, I didn't know a GNU was a wildebeest. I > dunno, been using GNU/Linux on and off for about 15 years or so and I've > never know this in all that time. I'll hang my head in shame! > > Rob > You have also lead a very sheltered life, as songs (rude, very rude and obscene) based on a Gnu were current in my student days in 1950s. Regards Eion MacDonald -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html