@itsfoss I still think that freax would be a cool name for a #legacy #Linux distro.

• I chose @OS1337 tho instead, innpart cuz someone else more talented should have the honours of taking #freax as name.

Still hats off to @torvalds who's 'small, non-serious project' grew and blossoms now into an ecosystem that wipes the floor with #Windows, and I'd consider the "true winner" of the #UnixWars (unless we only consider certified-compliant #Unix-delineating #Distros, then ir's #macOS)…

@landley @krutonium @OS1337 @geerlingguy sadly your experience re: #Rust isn't unique and I think a lot of said evangelists really sour the languague for so many…

• Obviously #HectorMartin & #AsahiLina ( @AsahiLinux ) are noteworthy exceptions, but their work was re: #Apple's proprietary #ARM-based #SoC's…

I do think that #Linux's main design philosophy (clean, readable #C code) should've been kept stronger as it enables easier #maintenance.

• Noone prevents i.e. a "#Freax"-Kernel that reimplements Linux's #ABI|s and #API|s from being made.

@nixCraft Linus' original project was to make a full, libre, Unix-like operating system. He wrote the kernel himself, but didn't feel the need to reïnvent the wheel when the GNU project had already done so much.

He called his project #Freax, because Linux was too egotistical. Ari Lemmke unilaterally renamed it because he thought Freax was a bad name. I suspect Stallman would approve of the name Freax, and not insist on GNU/Freax.