Actually, his name is Linus Torvalds =) He got the X because of the X at the end of Unix. First he was planning to call it FreaX or something, as in FreeX and Freaks =) Just a bit of information, so that his name wouldn't be mistaken for his OS =) Have a nice day -Nas On Fri, 2002-04-05 at 01:46, Branko Collin wrote: > > What is our stand on using the name Linux or the name GNU/Linux. > > For those who do not know: the OS Linux was built by Linux Torvalds > in 1991. > > > -- > branko collin > collin@xxxxxxxxx > _______________________________________________ > Gimp-developer mailing list > Gimp-developer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer >