Home›Articles›The Accidental Name Behind Linux, and the Dispute Over What to Call ItArticleThe Accidental Name Behind Linux, and the Dispute Over What to Call ItArticlesConnectionsSourcesComments (0)Reader Challenges (0)ConnectionsArticle OnLinux, Systems Well-attested SourcesWikipedia: Linuxtier 2Wikimedia FoundationHistory, Copyright, trademark, and naming section (including its Naming subsection)Quote, History, Copyright, trademark, and naming section (including its Naming subsection)Ari Lemmke, Torvalds' coworker at the Helsinki University of Technology (HUT) who was one of the volunteer administrators for the FTP server at the time, did not think that "Freax" was a good name, so he named the project "Linux" on the server without consulting Torvalds.View the SourceAtlas Article Vocabularytier 1AtlasComments (0)No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.Sign in to join the discussion.Reader Challenges (0)No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.