"Der Name Linux

Eigentlich sollte Linux nach dem Willen von Linus Torvalds Freax heißen, eine Wortschöpfung aus Freak (Verrückter, aber auch jemand, der sich für etwas begeistert), Free für Freie Software und dem oftmals üblichen x in Anspielung auf die Ähnlichkeit zu Unix. Aus diesem Grund hatte Torvalds, am Anfang der Programmierung des Systems, etwa ein halbes Jahr lang die Dateien unter Freax abgelegt. Auch den Namen Linux hatte sich Torvalds bereits überlegt, er erschien ihm aber zu egoistisch. Um anderen Leuten die Möglichkeit zu geben, am System mitzuarbeiten oder Verbesserungsvorschläge zu machen, sollten die Dateien im September 1991 auf dem FTP-Server (ftp.funet.fi) der Helsinki University of Technology (HUT) abgelegt werden. Der damalige Verantwortliche für den Server, Ari Lemmke (Mitarbeiter am HUT), war mit dem Namen Freax nicht einverstanden, er bevorzugte den Arbeitsnamen Linux. Ohne mit Torvalds darüber zu diskutieren, nannte er den Bereich am Server einfach Linux, was Torvalds schließlich akzeptierte, um große Diskussionen zu vermeiden und auch, wie Torvalds zugibt, weil Linux einfach der bessere Name war. Im Sourcecode der Version 0.01 von Linux kam noch der Name Freax vor (?Makefile for the FREAX-kernel?), später wurde nur noch der Name Linux verwendet. So setzte sich der eigentlich gar nicht geplante Name Linux weltweit durch."

ftp.funet.fi is not HUT's FTP server.
ftp.funet.fi belongs to FUNET.
HUT (Helsinki University of Technology) is a member of FUNET (Finnish University NETwork).

Release month is not "about" September 1991, it is September 1991.

"Erwise. After a visit from Robert Cailliau, a group of students at Helsinki University of Technology joined together to write a web browser as a master's project. Since the acronym for their department was called "OTH", they called the browser "erwise", as a joke on the word "otherwise". The final version was released in April, 1992, and included several advanced features, but wasn't developed further after the students graduated and went on to other jobs."

"After a visit from Robert Cailliau" - this is not true at all.

Story behind it: I was really interested hypermedia systems, there was one beeing developed for years (Xanadu), but nothing happened. During the summer before programming work a person (Jyrki Kuoppala) informed me there's new system called WWW, and then we waited until HUT's mathematics (?) department had one NeXT machine where timbl's prototype browser was running. I thought this was much better than menu based systems like Gopher. Hypermedia linking is quite natural form to do things insted of forced gopherish menus. What I did know was that this could give for a common person access to information, but I did not know the real success - saw it around 1993 when I organized the second timbl lecture in HUT. So after checking NeXT prototype browser thought it would be cool to have it running on top of X11 - nobody actually had NeXT machines seriously *only as toys* (pun intended), so I selected this as a topic and presented (selling) this to all students, and one group took the bait.

"joined together to write a web browser as a master's project" - not true, first of all groups were formed by students and after that they selected topic for their "programming/program project", not master's project.

"they called the browser "erwise"" - quite good, but the tutor names the project (me). Group could have named the program differently, but still the group work name would have been OHT-erwise.

Robert Cailliau visited HUT, but after Erwise project, and the cause was different: They wanted me to work in Cern for HTTP authentication protocol design and implementation. (use response and I might write the whole story..).

OHT = OhjelmaTyöRyhmä. [ohjelma: program, työ: work, ryhmä: group]