Re: [tlug] Child abuse :-(

["SL Baur" <steve@example.com>]

On 10/14/08, Nguyen Vu Hung <vuhung16plus@example.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 6:18 PM, Kenneth Burling <burlingk@example.com> wrote:
>  > Linux is the name Linus and the word Unix smashed together.
>  >
>  > It started out as a joke.  It was Linus's Unix...  Someone didn't get the
>  > punchline, and it became the defacto name of a new OS.
>
> I need a citation.

They are easy enough to find.  Linus started off calling it
Freeax - a truly horrible name.  Someone else suggested Linux
and the name caught on.

I know that someone else posted a link to wikipedia about this,
but I *know* the wikipedia entry for XEmacs has bad information,
so I do not expect the link to be any more accurate.

Try this:  http://liw.iki.fi/liw/texts/linux-anecdotes.html

-sb