From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 25 9: 1: 0 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rdc2.il.home.com (ha2.rdc2.il.home.com [24.2.1.36]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5970F37B400 for ; Thu, 25 Jan 2001 09:00:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from marx.marvic.chum ([24.17.229.11]) by mail.rdc2.il.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.00 201-229-121) with ESMTP id <20010125170037.YKDQ24600.mail.rdc2.il.home.com@marx.marvic.chum> for ; Thu, 25 Jan 2001 09:00:37 -0800 Received: (from vcardona@localhost) by marx.marvic.chum (8.9.3/8.9.3/SuSE Linux 8.9.3-0.1) id LAA16997 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Thu, 25 Jan 2001 11:03:54 -0600 Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 11:03:54 -0600 From: "Victor R. Cardona" To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: curiosity Message-ID: <20010125110354.B16941@home.com> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <054F7DAA9E54D311AD090008C74CE9BD01F1E8D8@exchange.panasonicfa.com> <01012516521002.17676@ricin.localnet> <01b801c086e8$c227d960$4d011c0a@delacruz.avis.com.mx> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <01b801c086e8$c227d960$4d011c0a@delacruz.avis.com.mx>; from eric@iteso.mx on Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 10:06:15AM -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 10:06:15AM -0600, Eric De La Cruz Lugo wrote: > Linus Torvalds named it that way (not only because he has a colosal EGO and > for the close spelling with his name but just to make shure AT&T dont sue > him jejejejeje :)) Actually, he wanted to call it Freeix, but the person who ran the ftp server where Linus had originally posted his code changed its name to Linux. -- Victor R. Cardona GnuPG Key fingerprint = 62B1 7995 A830 432C 74E8 1337 EDDB E682 3C76 7404 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message