Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 3rd Aug 2007 22:40 UTC, submitted by LinuxFan

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It's Ari Lemmke, the ftp server admin, who choosed the name, see around min 16 for the full story (Linus and Ari themselves)
http://www.archive.org/details/codename_gnu_linux
Code Name linux is quite good by the way, far from perfect, but good.
[edit: oops, the video has a german translation, i saw the french one, i don't know if a full english one exists]
Edited 2007-08-04 18:59
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As far as I know it wasn't linus who renamed the project but the server admin.