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Re:Show HN: DeepUI Programming Studio – A different approach... by dgellow on Sunday February 12, 2017 @02:02PM (#13629904)
Linux is a made-up name.
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Re:Show HN: DeepUI Programming Studio – A different approach... by greyman on Sunday February 12, 2017 @04:24PM (#13630955)
No, Linus created a piece of software and called it Linux. It is his creation and he named it.
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Re:Show HN: DeepUI Programming Studio – A different approach... by icebraining on Sunday February 12, 2017 @05:35PM (#13631449)
Funnily 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.

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