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by gustavo_duarte 6500 days ago
hahahah.

Exactly. Specifically, Linus' name for Linux was "Freax"

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"... Linus' name for Linux was "Freax" ..."

By himself he referred to it as "Linux" but thought it was lame. Only after the name being suggested by others did he agree. I got this "first-hand" from Revolution OS ~ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolution_OS You can watch it here ~ http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7707585592627775409

thanks!