Misplaced Pages

Ari Lemmke

Article snapshot taken from Wikipedia with creative commons attribution-sharealike license. Give it a read and then ask your questions in the chat. We can research this topic together.

This is an old revision of this page, as edited by 80.186.111.114 (talk) at 13:10, 26 May 2006. The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.

Revision as of 13:10, 26 May 2006 by 80.186.111.114 (talk)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)

This article is being considered for deletion in accordance with Misplaced Pages's deletion policy.
Please share your thoughts on the matter at this article's entry on the Articles for deletion page.
You are welcome to edit this article, but please do not blank this article or remove this notice while the discussion is in progress. For more information, particularly on merging or moving the article during the discussion, read the Guide to deletion.
If you created the article, please don't take offense. Instead, please join the discussion and consider improving the article so that it meets the Misplaced Pages inclusion criteria.

(log)

Template:AfD doc

Ari Lemmke (born December 12, 1963) is the person who gave Linux its name.

Linus Torvalds had planned to have it named Freax (a combination of "free", "freak", 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 (ftp.funet.fi).

External links


Flag of FinlandBiography icon

This Finnish biographical article is a stub. You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it.

Stub icon

This Linux-related article is a stub. You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it.

Categories: