All About Linux 2008: Great Moments in Linux History
In Helsinki in 1991, a college student named Linus Torvalds was working on what was “initially a terminal emulator, which Torvalds used to access the large UNIX servers of the university” developed on Minix using the GNU C compiler. Linus “wrote the program specifically for the hardware he was using and independent of an operating system because he wanted to use the functions of his new PC with an 80386 processor.”
According to Wikipedia, “in his book Just for Fun, he eventually realized that he had written an operating system kernel. On 25 August 1991, he announced this system in a Usenet posting to the newsgroup “comp.os.minix.”
Torvalds originally wanted the name of the operating system to be called “Freax,” a combination of the words “free” and “freak” with an X added as a nod to UNIX. He thought the name “Linux” was too egotistical.
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