From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 25 9:13:33 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from freyr.cba.ualr.edu (freyr.cba.ualr.edu [144.167.120.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5D80D37B402 for ; Thu, 25 Jan 2001 09:13:16 -0800 (PST) Received: (from joe@localhost) by freyr.cba.ualr.edu (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f0PHDdq09720; Thu, 25 Jan 2001 11:13:39 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from joe) Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 11:13:39 -0600 From: "Joseph E. Royce" To: "Victor R. Cardona" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: curiosity Message-ID: <20010125111339.A9663@freyr.cba.ualr.edu> References: <054F7DAA9E54D311AD090008C74CE9BD01F1E8D8@exchange.panasonicfa.com> <01012516521002.17676@ricin.localnet> <01b801c086e8$c227d960$4d011c0a@delacruz.avis.com.mx> <20010125110354.B16941@home.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <20010125110354.B16941@home.com>; from vcardona@home.com on Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 11:03:54AM -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG You guys need to read the charters for the mailing lists. If you feel compelled to talk about something off topic there is a list called freebsd-chat. -Joe On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 11:03:54AM -0600, Victor R. Cardona wrote: > On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 10:06:15AM -0600, Eric De La Cruz Lugo wrote: > > Linus Torvalds named it that way (not only because he has a colosal EGO and > > for the close spelling with his name but just to make shure AT&T dont sue > > him jejejejeje :)) > > Actually, he wanted to call it Freeix, but the person who ran the ftp > server where Linus had originally posted his code changed its name to > Linux. > -- > Victor R. Cardona > GnuPG Key fingerprint = 62B1 7995 A830 432C 74E8 1337 EDDB E682 3C76 7404 > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message