[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.