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In case it isn't obvious, this is a joke, Linus actually didn't name Linux after himself, the person who hosted the original source tree did: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux#Naming



However, Linux was a name that Linus had considered before dismissing it as too self-centered. It wasn't invented by the later host.




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