Re:Technical reasons to choose FreeBSD over GNU/Linux
by laumars on Monday April 13, 2020 @03:28PM
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No, that’s GNU with the “not UNIX” recursive acronym. Linux was named by the guy who first hosted Linus’ OS and was an amalgamation of “Linus” and “UNIX” (“nix” was a popular suffix for platforms of that type back in those days so “Linux” was a play on the authors name in the style of that naming convention).
If I recall correctly, Linus originally wanted his OS to be called “Freenix” because he thought naming it after himself was a little vein.
If I recall correctly, Linus originally wanted his OS to be called “Freenix” because he thought naming it after himself was a little vein.