Re: [tlug] Child abuse :-(

["Kenneth Burling" <burlingk@example.com>]

On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 5:37 PM, Nguyen Vu Hung <vuhung16plus@example.com> wrote:

2008/10/14 Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen@example.com>:

> Nguyen Vu Hung writes:
>  > On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 5:31 PM, SL Baur <steve@example.com> wrote:
>  > >
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Is "Linux" a madeup word?
As far as I can tell, in English,
"x" is used as a placeholder and we can replace it with any character we like,
just like "xxx"( google it) :D.
The name of the creator of the OS Linux is Linus, but I don't know if there is
any relation between Linux and Linus.

Linux is the name Linus and the word Unix smashed together.

It started out as a joke.  It was Linus's Unix...  Someone didn't get the punchline, and it became the defacto name of a new OS.