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Revision as of 23:01, 16 August 2006 by 152.163.100.6 (talk)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)AresLemmke (born December 12, 1963) is the person who gave Linux its name.
Linus Torvalds had planned to have it named Freax (a combination of "freaks" and the letter X to indicate a Unix-like system). Ari encouraged him to upload it to a network so it could be easily downloaded. Ari, however, not happy with the Freax name, gave Linus a directory called linux on his FTP server using the woring name Torvalds had concocted.
The space on the server is, as of now, ftp://ftp.funet/fi/pub/Linux/.
External links
- Ari's website at lemmke.org.
- Ari's website at funet.fi.
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