[SLUG] Answer to the most important LInux question ever!

[Adams, Jamie]

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> From: 	Al Girling[SMTP:al21 at firenet.uk.com]
> Reply To: 	scarborough at mailman.lug.org.uk
> Sent: 	05 November 2002 09:04
> To: 	SLUG
> Subject: 	[SLUG] Answer to the most important LInux question ever!
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I've just started an online course to learn how to use Linux at;
> 
> http://basiclinux.net  
> 
> This is an extract from the course overview.
> 
> <snip>
> BTW, according to Linus Torvalds, 'Linux' should be pronounced with a
> short 
> 'i' sound, like 'prInt', 'mInImal', etc. Linux should rhyme with Minix, 
> another Unix clone. It should not be pronounced like (American
> pronunciation 
> of) the `Peanuts' cartoon character, Linus, but rather 'LIH-nucks'. And
> the 
> 'u' is sharp as in 'rule, not soft as in 'ducks'.
> 
I have always said it as Lih-nucks.. though not because this was how I was
told to, its just how I interpreted it. Linus himself said they he did not
really care how people pronounced his name, because people said it in lots
of different ways. I always pronounced his name as L-i-nus, and it looks
like I was wrong all along. Every day is a school day!

> Perhaps easier to grasp: think of the names 'Lynn Nooks' (rhymes with 
> 'books') for the pronunciation of 'Linux'; and 'Lee Noose' (rhymes with 
> 'moose') as how Linus pronounces his name - with a charming Swedish
> accent, 
> of course ;-)
> <snip>
> 
> Toodle pip,
> 
> Al
> 
> 
> 
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