Pinguinsoftware bei den #grazerlinuxtage n #glt2026
Eine voll spannende Veranstaltung mit vielen #freax und ganz normalen Leuten.
Pinguinsoftware bei den #grazerlinuxtage n #glt2026
Eine voll spannende Veranstaltung mit vielen #freax und ganz normalen Leuten.
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.
@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.
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.
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