[Gllug] Working with Linux

[Richard Cohen]

On 7 Jan 2002, John Hearns wrote:

> On Mon, 2002-01-07 at 17:01, David Damerell wrote:
> > On Monday, 7 Jan 2002, tet at accucard.com wrote:
> > >Hmmm. "mac-oss-ex", "mac-oss-ten", "mac-oh-ess-ex", "mac-oh-ess-ten".
> > >That'd give them a one point lead. Quick, someone, come up with an
> > >alternate pronunciation of Linux :-)
> >
>
> And of course there is Hwelett-Paxkards Unix,
> which is officially Haitch Pee Yew Exx,
> or H-Pukes to the initiated.

I always pronounced it chu-puh (like clearing your throat and then
spitting).  It's that bad - or at least the version I used a few years ago
was... :-)

> And Sun's Solaris, or Slowlaris
> (ducks as rotten fruit is thrown in his direction).

Hmmmm.

Then, of course, there's UnixSwear, Open Deathtrap and OpenSewer.

I'll leave Microsoft products alone... :-)

Cheers
Richard


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