Linus Torvalds submitted Linux to an FTP server to be hosted, he submitted Linux as Freex, for a free kernel and x to symbolize that it was a unix-like system. The owner of the FTP server felt like Torvalds should get credit, so he renamed it to Linux.
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Torvalds original idea of what we know as linux?
Sorry, but I don't understand what you mean.
Linus Torvalds submitted Linux to an FTP server to be hosted, he submitted Linux as Freex, for a free kernel and x to symbolize that it was a unix-like system. The owner of the FTP server felt like Torvalds should get credit, so he renamed it to Linux.
I've got used the name Freex because in this is a FREE and it sounds like FREAKS.