Z:gnu-www-ja-thegnuproject--a7b5f1-The GNU kernel was not origina/en

The GNU kernel was not originally supposed to be called the Hurd. Its original name was Alix&mdash;named after the woman who was my sweetheart at the time. She, a Unix system administrator, had pointed out how her name would fit a common naming pattern for Unix system versions; as a joke, she told her friends, &ldquo;Someone should name a kernel after me.&rdquo; I said nothing, but decided to surprise her with a kernel named Alix.