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The early days of Linux

The early days of Linux

Posted Apr 13, 2023 6:11 UTC (Thu) by jem (subscriber, #24231)
In reply to: The early days of Linux by csigler
Parent article: The early days of Linux

I have always suspected the name of the 'rn' program was carefully chosen to be very similar to the often used 'rm'.


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The early days of Linux

Posted Apr 13, 2023 20:20 UTC (Thu) by klossner (subscriber, #30046) [Link]

It was a replacement for the then-ubiquitous "readnews" program, whose name took far too long to type.


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