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Out of respect for Linus, it should be called Linux, and not by some made-up name.
by greyman 10y ago
Out of respect for Linus, it should be called Linux, and not by some made-up name.
- dgellow 10y agoLinux is a made-up name.
- greyman 10y agoNo, Linus created a piece of software and called it Linux. It is his creation and he named it.
- icebraining 10y agoFunnily enough, he didn't :) Initially, Torvalds wanted to call the kernel he developed Freax (a combination of "free", "freak", and the letter X to indicate that it is a Unix-like system), but his friend Ari Lemmke, who administered the FTP server where the kernel was first hosted for download, named Torvalds's directory linux.
- swift 10y agoA lot of people worked on the user space, too. I understand why both camps want to get some of the credit.