MJ Ray wrote:
Tomasz Wegrzanowski taw@users.sourceforge.net wrote:
Admin of ftp site Linus used to distribute his kernel from called it "Linux".
I've just been looking for a source for this statement and I've failed. This fact seems to have fallen out of the collective consciousness of the web into some sort of subconsciousness. Can anyone find it?
I haven't got a link to the place where I first found this info, and I can't remember where it was - a book possibly? I ought to check when I get home on Friday. Anyway a search turned up this:
"The name Linux was not coined by Linus himself, strange though that may seem to people familiar with his self-esteem. It was coined by Ari Lemmke, the administrator at ftp.funet.fi who first made Linux available for FTP. Ari had to coin a name since Linus had failed to give a proper one, so Ari invented one and it stuck."
http://liw.iki.fi/liw/texts/linux-anecdotes.html
- Richard