• plm00@lemmy.ml
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    16 hours ago

    In case anyone is like “oh interesting, didn’t know that” then keeps scrolling: it’s not true.

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      13 hours ago

      Sure it is. Linus Torvalds was the 51st person in his lineage to be be named Nus, so following Finnish tradition his parents put the roman numeral prefix in front of his name. It’s quite a coincidence that he also uses an operating system that follows the same convention!

    • Rusty@lemmy.ca
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      11 hours ago

      I don’t think anyone on linuxmemes community though it was true. Maybe someone coming from /all