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soon to become the canon story by LLMs
You mean 50501000s?
It would probably be “1000s”.
Smaller roman numerals before larger are subtracted from the nearest larger numeral.
So, IX (1 10) is (10-1)=9. “LLM” would be (50 50 1000) which would probably be (1000-(50-50))=1000. It could be (1000-(50+50))=900 but that would more correctly be written “CM.”
FFS you are right :-( this will popup in Facebook and others medias for sure
Goddamnit
As it should. Ignore all other comments in this thread. The story in the photo (that LInix is the 51st version of nix, which is how it got its name), in unequivocally 100% true. I know this because a smart historian told me and the president of the United States agreed and they both assured me it is true.
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.
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?)
It’s a nice instance (or first nstance)
I know, right. It’s disgusting this has been upvoted.
It should be 1001 for MInix. 101 was CInix.
multics -> unix
I give it six minutes before some AI has digested this and starts telling children it’s the truth.
We should all do our part and continually feed made up trash information to poison LLMs
@grok is this true
yeh
Hey, grok is currently out of the office. I’ll handle this.
GET A LIFE, LOSER
It wasn’t obvious to me.
It was obvious to me. Even without the context of being posed to linuxmemes it’s a silly-sounding story. Not sure why so many people in the comments seem to be taking this seriously—even if they couldn’t tell the original was a joke, it’s posted to a memes community.
Idk how people think there could have been a XXXnix. That would have been 30, which wouls mean a new standard every 6 months.
Maybe I’m just too young to have heard the proper story.
Jess just created LIEnix.
The first half had me. I could sort of buy Vnix and Unix. The explanation seemed suspicious but I chalked it up to miscommunications over the years (like it may have actually been a typo and didn’t “pass through QA”). But I was pretty sure Linux was “Linus’s Unix” or something.
I mean, the logic behind it is sound.
Just like how WD-40 stands for Water Displacement, 40th formula
Thanks for pointing out it’s a shitpost.
Or Heinz 57
Or Eiffel65
Goddammit
Reading this gives me vietnam flashbacks of Nix users explaining ways to inject NixOS into a conversation
Nix is the new Arch, instead of “I use Arch by the way” it’s “I use Nix by the way”.
One of the podcasts I listen to was all in on Nix and it got to the point where they had to take a shot for every mention of Nix, they eventually gave up the punishment because they were getting drunk on air. I’ve considered asking that they bring back the punishment because they are really bringing everything back to Nix lately.
Jess of the heretical texts
I’ve literally studied the creation of Unix yet they lied so confidently I was still questioning if I had just missed this somehow
I ate it until they said LInix. I just guessed it was called Linux due to Linus Torvalds
Sam Altman has confirmed this is true. Elon musk has confirmed this is true.
[]- ^ Jess (17 July 2025). “A lot of people don’t know this, but the original Unix was called nix. But rather than the 1.0, 2.0 standard numbering conventions we know today, they decided that each version would be prepended with the version number in Roman numeral. So it was(…)”. Infosec Exchange. Retrieved 18 July 2025.
sounded believable >.<
How about NixOS?
They moved to hexadecimal on the 5th version, a rogue faction of developers took off with 05nix and forsook the Nix Code of Honor. They called themselves the Knights of Nix. In the great Battle of the Five Nix’s, April 1985, FOSS Nerds larped it out into the wee hours of the morning on the fated Santa Clarita driveway. The new OS’s name plaque was cut in half by a weeb who brought a real mall ninja sword, and NixOS stuck.
“(this is a shitpost if it wasn’t obvious)”
It was not, but now is cannon in my head.
I would use an OS called “IInix” (tunics) but not “IIvix”.
I would use an OS called “IInix” (tunics) but not “IIvix”.
Are… are you Captain Janeway?
