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Quoting:FYI Mr. Torvalds says LEE NUX.

Almost every non-English speaker says that ;)

I prefer LIE-nucks over LINN-ux or LEE-nux, but I don't expect anybody to go along with me.

Quoting:FYI Mr. Torvalds says LEE NUX.

That depends. If a Non-English speaker would have to pronounce LEE-NUX it would sound like LAY-NUX to an English speaker. So, for a non-English speaker Linus just says Linux.

LEE NOOKS

"Mr. Nooks, please pick up a courtesy phone..."

I prefer a girl named Lynn who has cooties. Lynn-icks.

RMS prefers to pronounce Linux like 'GNUH'.

RMS just can't get over the fact that GNU, as a word that is not easy to remember, does not roll off the tongue easily..and to top it off, in spite of all of his efforts to get people to call it what he feels is its proper name. All it has done is make more and more people aware of 'Linux'. Not GNU/Linux.

I would say that just about any other sound in the English language rolls off the tongue easier than a hard 'G' sound. He could not have chosen a worse sounding name, heck it's even easier to say 'G-System' or 'G-OS' than GNU.

He has, and can be, a brilliant man but not being able to get past what other people prefer to call it and getting caught up in correcting everyone makes him look foolish. Who cares how smart he is if it's impossible to talk to him unless you use the words he likes in the order he likes them.

Here he is, the man who created the idea of Free and Open Source Software and all he seems to care about is nagging people about it's proper title and laying guilt trips on those who would dare to call it Linux.

Quoting:all he seems to care about is nagging people about it's proper title and laying guilt trips on those who would dare to call it Linux.

He has made a lifestyle of nagging people, beginning with the founding of the GNU project.

Should have been called GNL though...

Quoting:heck it's even easier to say 'G-System' or 'G-OS' than GNU.

Maybe we should start calling it Gee-Nuu then, Like genie, but with a different ending :-)

Maybe we should invent 'apt-get gnu', additionally to 'apt-get moo'? ;-)

Quoting:Maybe we should start calling it Gee-Nuu

In fact, Genux did exist on paper, but it's dead now. RMS didn't have anything to do with it by the way.

Quoting:Here he is, the man who created the idea of Free and Open Source Software and all he seems to care about is nagging people about it's proper title and laying guilt trips on those who would dare to call it Linux.

RMS didn't create the idea of Free Software - he simply formalised, with a license of his own creation, the process that most programmers/systems analysts were using amongst themselves in "user group" and "computer club" settings.

That depends. If a Non-English speaker would have to pronounce LEE-NUX it would sound like LAY-NUX to an English speaker. So, for a non-English speaker Linus just says Linux.

Well, the European 'i' (like 'fit' or 'kite') gets pronounced as "ee", like 'feet'. The European 'e' (like 'get') gets pronounced as "ay", as in 'gay'. I refuse to pronounce 'Linux' as 'Linnux', since there is no 2nd 'n' to justify shortening the 'i'. so I just pronounce it 'Lee-nux'.

:-)

Quoting:RMS didn't create the idea of Free Software - he simply formalised, with a license of his own creation, the process that most programmers/systems analysts were using amongst themselves in "user group" and "computer club" settings.

True.

My point was that here is a guy who is regarded by 'Joe Public' as the man who started FOSS and all he seems to care about is if you use the words he wants you to use and in the order he prefers. Getting stuck on correcting everyone's grammar is not what he should be spending his time on.

If he really cared about FOSS, he wouldn't be preoccupied with correcting your grammar.

Quoting:Well, the European 'i' (like 'fit' or 'kite') gets pronounced as "ee", like 'feet'. The European 'e' (like 'get') gets pronounced as "ay", as in 'gay'. I refuse to pronounce 'Linux' as 'Linnux', since there is no 2nd 'n' to justify shortening the 'i'. so I just pronounce it 'Lee-nux'.

For me, it depends on what language I speak. When speaking in Dutch I say "Lee-nux". When speaking English I say "Linnux".

Crikey... maybe I'll just call it Martha.

dcp> Well, the European 'i' (like 'fit' or 'kite') gets pronounced as "ee", like 'feet'. The European 'e' (like 'get') gets pronounced as "ay", as in 'gay'. I refuse to pronounce 'Linux' as 'Linnux', since there is no 2nd 'n' to justify shortening the 'i'. so I just pronounce it 'Lee-nux'.

Well, the American 'u' is often pronounced as the European 'a', like in the famous four-letter-word - while we Europeans call it more like 'oo'. So for me, it's Lee-nooks...

Quoting:Well, the American 'u' is often pronounced as the European 'a', like in the famous four-letter-word - while we Europeans call it more like 'oo'. So for me, it's Lee-nooks...

Note also that some languages distinguish long and short vowels (which is a pain for learners whose primary languages don't, for example me), which might make this example a bit inaccurate. But only a bit :)

> ...we Europeans call it more like 'oo'. So for me, it's Lee-nooks...

In the late 90s, one of my coworkers read an interview of Linus where he was asked how to pronounce Linux. The article parenthesized the pronunciation like this (lin-nooks). My coworker decided that meant it was pronounced (lin-NUKES) and hounded me about for an hour.

Finally, I said, "Well, I dunno. I didn't read the BUKE! Can I take a LUKE, or have you already TUKE it home?"

That pretty much ended it.