You Asked: Where Did Linux Get Its Name?
Contents Linus Torvalds, the Creator of the Linux Kernel, Wanted to Name the Kernel Freax, but Ari Instead Gave Him a Folder Called “Linux” to Upload His...
Linus Torvalds, the creator of the Linux kernel, wanted to name the kernel Freax, but Ari instead gave him a folder called “linux” to upload his kernel to. The Linux name came from “Linus’ Minix” which was the operating system Linus was trying to replace for himself.
What was the original name for Linux?
He originally intended to name it “Freax,” but the administrator of the server Torvalds used to distribute the original code named his directory “Linux” after a combination of Torvalds’ first name and the word Unix, and the name stuck.
Where does Linux come from?
Linux, computer operating system created in the early 1990s by Finnish software engineer Linus Torvalds and the Free Software Foundation (FSF). While still a student at the University of Helsinki, Torvalds started developing Linux to create a system similar to MINIX, a UNIX operating system.
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