@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…

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.
Linux feiert 34. Geburtstag: Linus Torvalds’ erste Ankündigung im comp.os.minix-Forum
Vor 34 Jahren wurde Linux zum ersten Mal öffentlich angekündigt. Seitdem hat sich das freie Betriebssystem zu einer wichtigen Größe im Technikberei
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Linux feiert 34. Geburtstag: Linus Torvalds’ erste Ankündigung im comp.os.minix-Forum

Am 34. Geburtstag von Linux blicken wir auf die erste Ankündigung und den Weg des freien Betriebssystems von Linus Torvalds vom Hobbyprojekt zur globalen Plattform zurück.

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When Linus Torvalds uploaded his new operating system to an FTP server in 1991, he named it "Freax" (a mix of "free," "freak," and "Unix"). The server admin, Ari Lemmke, thought "Freax" was unappealing and listed it as "Linux" instead. Linus didn’t mind, and the name stuck. Decades later, Linux powers everything from smartphones to supercomputers.
Just imagine if the name Freax stuck.

#Linux #FOSS #TechTrivia #OSHistory #OpenSource #Freax

@nixCraft #freax sounds very nice.

@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.

#TeLoContamos

Un día como hoy hace 29 años Linus Torvalds anunciaba el desarrollo de un nuevo sistema operativo.

Inicialmente su nombre sería #Freax resultado de la unión de las palabras «gratis», «freak» y X (Unix), pero finalmente recibió el nombre conocido por todos hoy kernel #Linux

La primera versión 0.01 fue lanzada en septiembre de ese mismo año, siendo un kernel bastante joven que tiene mucho para seguir sorprendiendo a los usuarios de las comunidades de Tecnologías Libres.

#Linux

Initially, Torvalds wanted to call the kernel he developed Freax (a combination of "free", "freak", and the letter X to indicate that it is a Unix-like system), but his friend Ari Lemmke, who administered the FTP server where the kernel was first hosted for download, named Torvalds's directory linux.[45]
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linus_Torvalds

#TIL #Linux #Freax

Linus Torvalds - Wikipedia