Ari Lemmke

Ari Lemmke (born December 12, 1963) is the person who gave Linux kernel its name.

Linus Torvalds had planned to have it named Freax (a combination of free , freak , and the letter X to indicate a Unix-like system). Ari encouraged him to upload it to a network so it could be easily downloaded. Ari, however, not happy with the Freax name, gave Linus a directory called linux on his FTP server (ftp.funet.fi).

= External links =

*[http://www.lemmke.org/arl/index.2.en.html Ari s website] at lemmke.org. *[http://www.funet.fi/~arl/ Ari s website] at funet.fi.