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According to Linus himself, he wanted to called it Freax (the 'x' because anything Unix-related requires one) but a buddy of his came up with Linux, which stems from his name + the required x. Linux and Minix are not related, he was using Minix when writing Linux but that's where the...

Dunno if anyone has heard about it but there is a faily comical theatre going on in the media now, following the statement of one think tank that Linus Torvalds (the author or Linux) ripped Linux off Unix. The best review I have seen is from cnet and I pasted it below. I also thought Tanenbaum's...