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

[Gavin Baker]

On Tue, 2002-11-05 at 09:30, Adams, Jamie wrote:
> > 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!

wget ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/SillySounds/english.au
play english.au

;)

Regards,
Gav