You might be thinking of GNU, which is a recursive acronym that stands for "GNU's Not Unix". As far as I understand it we got the name Linux because Linus Torv

You might be thinking of GNU, which is a recursive acronym that stands for "GNU's Not Unix". As far as I understand it we got the name Linux because Linus Torvalds was quite bad at naming things. :) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux#Naming https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux#Naming