[godmodus]

Cute idea. Why No Linux?

[pjmlp]

Maybe because GNU/Linux users are allergic to money for desktop software.

[godmodus]

But we do. And I do. That's all I'll say to you. I don't want any part of this vitriol.

[greyman]

Out of respect for Linus, it should be called Linux, and not by some made-up name.

[swift]

A lot of people worked on the user space, too. I understand why both camps want to get some of the credit.

[dgellow]

Linux is a made-up name.

[greyman]

No, Linus created a piece of software and called it Linux. It is his creation and he named it.

[icebraining]

Funnily enough, he didn't :)

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.

[Fifer82]

This question has been around since I connected to the internet. The response has always been to use a reasonably decent OS.