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Re: [ProgSoc] Questions...
On Fri, May 07 1999, Matt wrote:
|
| On Fri, May 07, 1999 at 04:37:23PM +1000, Eliseo Christopher d'Annunzio, Esquire wrote:
|
| > bordering on the edge of insane... but could someone briefly explain
| > the differences between Linux and Unix (apart from the fact that one
| > of them was created by a guy so vain he named it after himself)
|
| As for your second statement that Linus was vain enough to call the OS
| after himself i think you need to check some facts. Linus origionally
| called his kernel "Freax" (sp??), but at the insistence (as the net
| would have it) of his friends he renamed it Linux. Also if you had
The account Lars Wirzenius gives is that when Linus first uploaded his
source code to incoming on ftp.funet.fi, he gave the sources a
non-descript name. When the ftpmaster saw it he contacted Linus and
insisted that he choose a real name for the kernel. Linus was still
unable (or unwilling) to come up with a name, so the ftpmaster renamed
the sources to "Linux". Once people started downloading it by that name,
there was a stronger pressure to keep the name... and the rest, as they
say, is history.
Cheers,
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Dennis Clark dbugger@nospam.debian.org PGP/MIME spoken here
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