why is it called the root user anyhow

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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Serious Hardware/Software Crap > YOSPOS > why is it called the root user anyhow

jony ive aces: Jun 14, 2012; designer of the lomarf car; Buglord

my stepdads beer posted:

in my culture root means gently caress. we pronounce router as 'rooter' too.

it's called the root user op because if someone owns your computer you've been rooted :xd:

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jony ive aces: Jun 14, 2012; designer of the lomarf car; Buglord

flakeloaf posted:

2010, america: i rooted an android
2040, australia: i rooted an android

# ¿ Jun 28, 2016 07:03

jony ive aces: Jun 14, 2012; designer of the lomarf car; Buglord

tbh tho i normally hear people pronounce router the dumb seppo way & do the same myself. which is weird because the thing a router does to packets & the paths it does that along are both correctly pronounced "root"

# ¿ Jun 28, 2016 07:06

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