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TIL Debian releases are named after Toy Story characters
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Which stands for 'GNU is not Unix'. Also 'less' (which is more). Pine is(was) Program for Internet News and Email and the FOSS fork is 'Alpine' or 'Alternatively Licensed Program for Internet News and Email'. And there's a ton more of wordplays and other more or less fun stuff on how/why things are named like they are.
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Pine also competed with "elm". And it used the "pico" editor which was replaced by "nano"...
And pico is short from 'Pine Composer'. Nano was originally called 'tip' (This Is not Pico), but that name was already used by another program. And 'elm' besides being a tree is a short from 'Electronic Mail'.
Developers love nothing more than a pun. 🙂
I think that's just their code...
Developers love nothing more than a pun. 🙂